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I heard this song at work today and I remembered that when it was released, I read that Kelly Clarkson had written it about the impact that her parent’s divorce has had on her since she was six years old. But when Breakaway, this song’s album was released, I wasn’t as in tuned with all things divorce like I am now. Today, I [...]
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With summer quickly approaching, I can’t help but remember my own extended non custodial visits. Because of sheer physical distance, I generally had Christmas or spring break with a month in the summer with my non custodial parent, just like so many other children and parents of divorce. It’s a tricky thing. As exciting and [...]
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As a young teenager, I had a brush with parental alienation. While standing at a sink washing dishes it was declared to me that one of my parents must not love me. Then I was assaulted with all the twisted evidence to prove their claim. The lack of phone calls, the apparent lack of interest, and of course the lack [...]
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Have you ever been on an extended vacation to a faraway place? It’s so exciting. You anticipate it for weeks. You think about it all the time in the days leading up to the trip. And then when you get there, you feel in awestruck by everything! Everything that’s new. Everything that’s different. You enjoy [...]
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Well, over this past beautiful weekend, I devoted my blogging time to some website maintenance. I was finding that my category list was no longer specific enough and therefore not an effective way to navigate through my posts. In the beginning, it didn’t seem like much of a problem but as my content grows it [...]
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How will my divorce affect my child? A lot of parents out there are asking this question and unfortunately there’s a problem with the answer. The problem is that the ‘answer’ doesn’t really exist. The professionals don’t know. Two of the leading experts in the field, Judith Wallerstein and E. Mavis Hetherington seem to [...]
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Spoiled by divorce? You’ve got to be kidding.
by Carolyn on May 17, 2010
The perception that children of divorce are spoiled simply as a result of being children of divorce amazes me. Do people really think that or is it just something they say without actually realizing what they are saying? Even one of my favorite bloggers, Avitable recently wrote in a post that children of divorce were [...]
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