I don't care what anyone says, but all children prefer their parents to be together.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
That thing, 'You must stay together for the kids', is out of fashion but is right. It's not arguing parents that children don't like, it is having one parent.
Parents should support and love their kids no matter what.
Parents like the idea of kids, they just don't like their kids.
When you become a parent, you really care that you get that right, and you care about nothing else.
It's like the old thing: The parents stay together for the kids, but the kids know that you don't want to be together. The kids would rather you be happy - and separate - than together and miserable. I don't want my kid to grow up around two parents who just don't work.
Even though I'm not with their mother, it's important for my kids to see adults in a committed and happy relationship. They need to see a strong relationship. You don't have to settle.
It's one of the worst-kept secrets of family life that all parents have a preferred son or daughter, and the rules for acknowledging it are the same everywhere: The favored kids recognize their status and keep quiet about it - the better to preserve the good thing they've got going and to keep their siblings off their back.
One wants to be together with one's family. That's what families are about.
I think all kinds of parents are different in what they're seeking.
I often find that the best parents are the ones without children.