Quotes on Divorce and Children

Quotes on Divorce and Children by Step-Children

• "Most of my friends complain that their step parents are real witchy. My friends tell me that all their stepparents do is make them do chores and yell at them."

• "Every time I go out with Dad, he quizzes me about Mum and my new stepdad. I feel like a spy."

• "I most want my mum back and for everything to be OK."

• "I'm not sure who to go to now, when I want to talk about things."

• "It feels wrong when I'm having fun with dad and his new wife, when I think of Mum by herself."

• "I think that Samuel and his children are more special to her now."

• "I feel like Mum's a different person."

• "He seems to think he can tell me what to do, but he hasn't got the right. He isn't my real dad."

• "It's hard getting to know lots of new people all at once."

• "My stepmum always lets her children get away with things but with me and my sister she is very strict. When I said it wasn't fair she said she treated us all the same. This just isn't true."

• "My stepfather is always shouting at me and finding fault with what I do or say. When I'm wearing my nightie or pyjamas, I don't like the way he looks at me. It makes me feel uncomfortable."

• "I don't know how marriage is supposed to work, but I know I grew up in a family where it didn't."

• "I get close to someone, then the same thing happens. I'm scared to death to make a commitment."

• "I don't know if I believe in marriage."

• "Data demonstrates that in work, school and college education, children of intact families fare better."

• "There are so many good reasons to reach out and get help and save that marriage for your child and for your own sake as well."

• "Children are being woefully shortchanged. They need us to build a society of enduring families and monogamous marriages. For this reason, we must reinvigorate the cultural ideals of family within the changed circumstances of our time."

• "Divorce is probably not in and of itself psychologically damaging for children: what counts is whether, how often, and how intensely parents fight in front of their children both before and after divorce."

• "I've got a news flash for the 2 of you: you're not the only ones living in your home-you've got children who are watching you and listening to how you scream at each other. What do you think the impact is when you yell and scream?"

• "Mommy and Daddy can't get along anymore, so we're going to get a divorce, but we still love you."

• "Divorce robs children of the bedrock belief in the stability of marriage. It's unsettling to them. We need to get this thing right!"

• "One reason children from divorced families get divorced more often is because they have a tendency to marry as teenagers"

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