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The Split

Submitted by mandy120 on April 4, 2006

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The word divorce is heard more and more in people's conversations. Over 800,000 couples in the United States get divorced each year. " Half say our family lives were stressful. More than half say we experienced many looses" (Marquardt). I want to know not only what the adults go through but also what kind of scars children carry throughout their lives. Divorce not only affects two people; it affects whole families.
In Elizabeth Marquardt's article she talks about a guy named Walker and his feeling about divorce. " He moves through days, weeks, people, growing attached and then letting go, meeting people and then saying good-bye…It's easier to forget, to wipe the slate clean, watch the world go by like a film on a screen, without letting anything stick." His parents choose to have him move from one place to another each year.
The story of Janet and Sybil is a real life story of how they felt when their parents got divorced. It was not abnormal for them to be angry or clingy or distant for hours when they would go from one house to another (Marquardt).This causes many people attachment issues later in life. Sybil said " Once we felt so much loss, so many times, many of us grew numb to it…I learned to bottle up my longing for my father and did my best to ignore how much I missed my mother" (Marquardt). Many people expect children of divorce to be able to handle the situation when in reality they are falling to the point of
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In many researchers opinions they say that if children ‘don't end up drug addicts in the street ,' it means they are just fine and the divorce wasn't a problem for them (Wetzstein). In some studies adults who have been through divorce as children have grown to accept the facts that their parents were better off divorcing (Wetzstein). Most people don't understand that it is more traumatizing to a child growing up in an unhappy family with a lot of yelling and...

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