It would impact any child of the break-up of their parents.

My mum and dad divorced it he wasn’t very nice person and haven’t spoken to him in 24 years and I have not separated from partner but I will say this remember there are kids envolved don’t bag out each parent to your child try and get on for the children’s sake

My parents have just separated and I’m 30, It has been very emotional exhausting. My daughters have also taken it very hard.

it does have an impact but it is up to the parents to make it as easy as possible on the kids, my husband walked out on me just over two weeks ago and really our boys haven’t been too bad, why? because daddy can come over any time he likes to see them, mummy and daddy are working together for our kids despite having issues, in fact he wanted to end it as things were turning sour and he didn’t want us hating each other while trying to raise our boys together

It would impact at any age I’m sure however when older would be more obvious and more likely the kids express themselves

At any age its a big change and have some impact on kids.

It’s tough, but working with the other parent helps.

I was always glad my kids were too young to remember me separating from their dad (3 and almost 1), and my youngest I was single already, as I found it really difficult when my parents divorced when I was 9. It was like my whole world was torn apart. And to make things worse, some strange man moved in not long after, my mother’s new boyfriend who was king and had not much to do with us at all. I think I would’ve handled it better if my dad hadn’t been instantly replaced with a non-dad type fake.

Hmmmm, yes, I have seen quite a few children damaged by nasty divorces. I don’t think I know of any ‘happy’ separations 🙁

such an interesting read, its a hard situation

7 to 14 is a big age range. I think its safe to assume no kid is immune from the stress of a divorce.

The interesting article. I would have thought it would be easier for the older kids because they understood more.

One of the worst things is parents “bad mouthing” the other one to the children. Another thing is a child asking their Mum for something for school and her continuously saying “I’ve got no money ask you Dad” One case I know is fact, the Mum was getting extra Child Support via cash, free rent and her car serviced for her and he sometime took food there. I was at the Grandmas’ once when the kids came there. They told her there was more grog in the fridge than there was food…..and we found out that was correct.

Why is there the YouTube video as part of every article I am reading??

It would have a lot to do with how it was handled by the parents too I would think

Interesting post – guess it all depends on the situation. A divorce is better than seeing your mum or dad get beaten up/browbeaten every day of your lives – that makes for a very unsettled household.

I think the hardest of all is dealing with the divorce of your parents as an adult.

This is interesting and may help some divorcing parents do better for their kids.

I am so lucky that I never had to deal with divorce as my parents are happily married, and I feel for any kid who has to go through it. Between those ages there s so much going on in a childs development and hormones that this would be such a hard thing to deal with on top of all that.

I can imagine this would be correct as they enter the preteen and teen years.