Howmany of you out there are the product of a broken home whose parents are divorced or seperated?

Answer 1

Why limit this question to people whose parents are divorced or separated? My parents were married for 37 years in a relationship that was a war zone. Screaming at each other night after night, the horrible feeling of being forced to sit at the dinner table while they worked themselves up for a fight and tried to draw us kids in, the awful sense of presenting a lie to the outside world that everything was fine when in fact it was hell-- geez, there's so much bad stuff, some of it horrifically bad stuff. And yet because my parents never divorced, somehow people count it among the "successful" marriages?!?

I gotta tell ya, I would rather have been in a "broken home" where my parents were divorced and my mentally ill, abusive father couldn't touch us and where my co-dependent and emotionally needy mother might have gotten help, than in the family situation I grew up in.

At least if parents divorce and end an abusive marriage, the possibility exists that the custodial parent might eventually get into a loving, caring relationship where kids can be nutured. People who stay in a bad marriage exclude that as a possibility.

I can see how a healthy divorce, ending a bad marriage and acknowledging that the situation is broken beyond repair, could be a better situation than a sick marriage where the people involved hang onto the relationship because they're too sick to get out of it.

A "broken home" can still exist where the marriage remains unbroken. It takes more than two people staying together under the same roof to make a good home for raising kids, and a home where there is only one parent, or a "blended family" situation can be a better one for all concerned than the original relationship(s) they were in.

Answer 2

My parent's had a very bitter separation and eventually divorce 2 years after the separation. That was over 10 years ago. They are both very different people than they were back then

Answer 3

My parents have been divorced since I can remember. Infact my stepmother is the woman that my dad cheated on my mom with while she was pregnant with me. I don't know what you are exactly looking to get out of this question. So I will just tell you that I know it sucks and sometimes you feel that one or both of your parents don't love you and sometimes in extreme cases they don't. (like my dad and stepmom) No matter what though the key to getting through it is to have great friends and to find things that you just love. The thing that got me through my childhood was music. If I didn't have music or I wasn't able to find somewhere to let out my frustration with my voice. I think I wouldn't have made it. I say just try and find your saving grace.

Answer 4

I am a product of a widowed woman with 5 kids to raise on her own.My Mom done the best possible for us.I can save money on all kinds of stuff, I never take anyone for granted,I love my family very much.I lost my Mom last year and I wouldn't change a thing about my life at all.

Answer 5

I'm one parents divorced when In was 15yrs old, my wife number 2 parents divorced when she was 2yrs old. In both caes I think the parents made the right choice to keep the children from going through fighting matches etc.

Answer 6

Minire are divorced, were for round 7 years now. BQ a million: in the adventure that your dad and mom are divorced, is one figure or both remarried? I dont communicate to my mum anymore on the grounds that being a mummy. yet my brother does from time to time and apprently she is getting remarried. My dad is likewise getting remarried in september to a gorgeous woman who i'd be proud to call mum.

Answer 7

Parents were divorced when I was 8 now i'm 26

Answer 8

My parents divorced when I was 6 years old.

Answer 9

My parents divorced when I was 22 years old. It has caused our family to lose touch with one another. I do have a close relationship with my father and so does my brother. However, I lost the bond I had with my sister and my brother never bothers with me. I speak with my mother often but we are not as close as I would like. I love them all dearly and would like to have a bond with them.

Answer 10

I was 13 when my parents went through a really messy divorce.