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

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

I think the key for a child to do well in a divorce is, very simply, you have to be honest with them.

Often, parents feel overwhelmed. Many must accomplish the whole job single-handedly while bearing all of the emotional pain of divorce.

Divorce is one of the key predictors of poverty for a child growing up in a home that's broken.

Divorce isn't just the person, it's everything that goes with it - your kids, the adjustment, everything.

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

It's hard for me to generalize about kids and divorce. I think every family's experience is different; some kids are devastated by it, others relieved, and so forth, no matter what generation they're from.

We've all been affected by divorce in one way or another, whether we've experienced it personally, or witnessed family or friends go through it.

The seeds of divorce are often sown and the problems of children begin when Mother works outside the home.