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Teens views: How I would like my divorced parents to change 7 Articles

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    by Danny Smiles

    I was sick of the fighting in second grade, I'm sick of it now. See, I thought that when they got divorced that everything would be better, that it would all be fixed, but I was very wrong. My parents fought all the time, ...read more

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    by Gabriella Samms

    How do you walk away from thirty-five years of marriage without looking back? I've asked myself that about my father for almost 17 years. Not only did my mother become an insignificant memory to him; he left five kids in t...read more

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    by Breidi Caparatta

    My parents have been divorced now for about two years. At first I was devastated and all I could concentrate on were ways to get them back together. I schemed and plotted without the least little bit of encouragement or ...read more

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    by Peter Robertson

    My father was my stable influence, my rock I relied on, but he wasn't there anymore. I cried, I rebelled and I cut myself, but I couldn't get my father's attention. I was left with a bitterness that I wouldn't wish on my w...read more

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    by Aysha Schurman

    The first thing that pops into my mind when people ask me how I would like my divorced parents to change is "DUH". I wish my parents weren't divorced. Like most children, at first I didn't understand what was going on ...read more

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    by Phil Hill

    Children can suffer greatly when their parents split up and divorce. They can be made to think that they are a burden. They spend most of the week with one parent and are then farmed out at weekends with the other. Every t...read more

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    by Ray Fauteux

    Divorce is hard enough without having to deal with their parents continually acting with bitterness in their dealings with each other. Teens seldom have any input into how their parents treat each other, but just the same,...read more

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