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I had a woman breakdown and cry when she met me which was difficult to deal with because immediately when someone starts to cry, you want to comfort them, you know, 'Poor thing.' I comforted her. I tried to make her feel better.

You can't underestimate how traumatic divorce is for the children.

I am a step mother, so how children deal with divorce is something I've witnessed first hand and thought about a lot.

I am divorced, and one of the things I am tremendously grateful for is that my ex-husband and I made a decision to go through mediation. I knew a trial would drag on for years, would cost me everything, but worse, would be devastating for our four small children.

I have two children of my own. Crying is not evidence of pain or any real suffering. It's really just the way children communicate.

There are women who get divorced in order to punish. Out of this bitter, bitter hatred that some of these women have for their ex-husbands, they turn their children against them.

Obviously, you go through a lot of emotional turmoil in a divorce.

I don't have children that I've lost in a bitter custody dispute. But I see an enormous wound in kids due to a lack of their dads.

Divorce is fairly common these days, and I think many times people disregard the emotional impact that divorce has on a couple and a family, because it happens so frequently.

Divorce in and of itself, and with children, is devastating.