Divorce emotionally scars every child. Outside of the death of a parent, divorce is the most painful experience a child will ever have to face. . . . Because divorce is something parents choose to do, it is increasingly difficult for a child to comprehend. ...
Stress is another result of divorce on children’s lives. The added stress of worry and an intense fear of failure in relationships with friends often follows children into adulthood. Girls from divorced homes in the thirteen to seventeen age group exhibit much lower self-esteem and are far more sexually active than girls who come from two-parent homes. Boys carry deep unmet longings for their fathers. Perhaps the two strongest stress-related feelings are rejection and depression. It takes many years for these feelings to be healed. Children of divorce often grow up with an extreme fear of marriage because they know, first hand, the agony and scars they have been left with.
Hope MacDonald, The Flip Side of Liberation: A Call to Traditional Values, pg.104, 105
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