H4HK FAQs: What Is It Like When Your Parents Get Divorced?
H4HK FAQs are designed to answer questions kids and teens ask when facing difficult situations and circumstances in their lives.
This article from SafeTeen.org helps teens to understand how they might feel following the divorce of their parents and things they can do to help. Although brief, this article provides a good overview and some sound suggestions. The article explains:
Your parents are getting a divorce. Whether this is expected or unexpected, it is a traumatizing and overwhelming event to experience. Sometimes, teens and children feel like they somehow caused the divorce.
It offers the following advice to teens on how to make the divorce easier:
- Be fair to both parents
- Work it out
- Stay in touch
- Don’t worry about the future
- Keep living your life
- Focus on the positive
Although the article does not provide much in-depth information or advice, is it a good overview for teens.
LINK: http://www.safeteens.org/relationships/dealing-with-divorce/
Find answers to other frequently asked questions on our H4HK FAQs Page. For more resources and information on divorce, family disruption and modern families please visit our Hope 4 Hurting Kids Divorce and Modern Family Help Center.