Fast Track Classics 6-12 Se Little Women Book

Paula Danzinger, speaks about Divorce from a Child's point of view...

The sadness of living with 'half a parent', the trips made to and fro from one city to another on weekends or school holidays.
The unhappiness at realising that one of your parents now likes or is dating someone else, this someone whom you dislike or may not be good for you.
The utter sorrow that your Father or your Mother or both have 'new' families. Were you not enough of a family? Is it that they now like the new family better than the last one of which you were an integral part?
The endless questions...Is your Father or is your Mother going out with someone new? How does she look like?
Those gifts that most of the times you do not want, given to ease their conscience. You then learn to 'get the best of a bad deal' so you ask for things, expensive clothes, 'why not you argue with yourself after all they abandoned me'.
You do foolish sometimes dangerous things just to get some attention from your Dad or Mum and the 'new Dad' or 'new Mum' will say 'I always said she was endless trouble'.
Then you meet the sassiest boy, or a dangerous boy in the school who wears an earring and your Dad will say, 'is that what we taught you'? And you wonder who the 'we' is, and when was the last time you met this 'we'?

Oh yes, times are awful, but you do not know what to do...You try to make everyone around you happy and comfortable but there are too many people and frankly hardly anyone cares for you, they are too busy with their own lives...