Is Your Child in the Middle of Your Divorce?

If you believe the statistics, 50 percent of American marriages fail. Most of those marriages divide a household containing one or more children.

According to Ken Potts, a counselor and family therapist, many parents put pressure on their children to choose sides. "When parents ask kids to take sides or reject the other parent," ken explains, "children must not only deal with the loss of the marriage - the foundation of their family life - but with the potential loss of a parent as well."

Potts says that this can lead to chronic bed wetting, delinquency, and even substance abuse. What's more, children who are forced to pick sides are more likely to reject both parents when they reach their teen years and realize that these were choices they should never have been forced to make.

"Children of divorce desperately need to feel safe in the love of both their parents," says Potts, "Almost as important, they also need to know that they can safely love both their parents."

Source: www.dailyherald.com