Is divorce hereditary?

Question

Are my children doomed to following the failing footsteps of me and my predecessors??

Answer 1

Not if you teach them healthy ways to intereact with the opposit sex.
try a divorce recovery class. There are support groups also for people who have been divorced if you ask random people who never been through a divorce then its' not easy to answer.
I have parents who are divorced and I am married since december 29th so I think this is hard to ask people unless they themselfs have been divorced and have kids who never gotten divorced but I think there is hope. don't give up

Answer 2

Nope. Hereditary = eye color, some of your height, maybe basic disposition.... will your kids entire love life revolve around a gene? No.

What kind of example you set, and how open you are about how you made your choices, that'll have an impact. No "doom" here, tho.

Answer 3

Not by definition hereditary but they DO imitate your actions--positive and negative. So if you show them failing footsteps they are doomed to repeat it.

Answer 4

I hope not. Just do the best you can to help them learn from your mistakes. That is what I plan on doing, you can't force someone not to cheat on you and I am going to have to teach my daughter that it wasn't my choice for him to do that. I don't think that means that she should have to suffer the same fate and I will do everything in my power to make sure she doesn't.

Answer 5

I sure hope not. But how they see their parents handling issues they will probably do the same

Answer 6

I have noticed a trend that it seems to run in families.

Answer 7

I don't know- nobody in my family or extended family has ever been divorced.

Answer 8

No

Answer 9

no