Horenstein Family Law Blog
Family Friends Divorcing
Posted: March 10, 2010
Your family is very close with another family: you travel together, you attend school functions together, you spend holidays together, maybe you coach together one of your children's teams when suddenly to your surprise the couple in that family are getting divorced. What do you tell your children is of primary concern. How will this change your relationship with this family. Carolyn Hax, a syndicated columnist, addressed this issue in the Washington Post on Sunday March 7th. Her column also runs in the Columbian newspaper and the Seattle Times.
She had a thoughtful answer to this very question. She suggests it is an opportunity to teach children about compassion, about respecting others private business, about perspective, about adversity. For example she suggests "You can teach your kids to be calm and flexible: "The divorce will change the way we get together with them, and that's going to feel weird at first, but we'll manage." You may read her March 7th column at http://www.seattlepi.com/hax/.
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