The Politically Incorrect Guide^TM to Women, Sex, and Feminism

Author:Carrie L. Lukas
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Regnery Press
Published: 2010-09-02T16:00:00+00:00

Wallerstein describes the many roles that children take on post-divorce, from acting as a caretaker to younger siblings or a grieving parent to adopting behaviors associated with the absent parent. She highlights how divorce reduces the amount of time that the child typically spends with the parent no longer living in the same residence, and at the same time often results in less access to their primary care-giving parent who is taking on new responsibilities and attempting to rebuild a life of her (or his) own.

Wallerstein cautions those contemplating divorce to recognize that it will not eliminate the problems that previously haunted the couple. Presumably both parents will continue to be involved in raising their children, and they’ll interact and have a relationship post-divorce. This often means that problems prevalent during the marriage remain a significant factor in the relationship after the marriage is dissolved. Wallerstein highlights the case of one youngster with a father emotionally abusive to his sister and mother, but who continued that abuse in his post-divorce relationship with his children. Wallerstein concludes: “Larry’s experiences reveal that divorce is not the quick solution to a bad marriage that many people understand it to be. High-conflict marriages often lead to high-conflict families after divorce.”24

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