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Divorce 'may be better for children' |
People who are considering a separation may be better off seeking the advice of a divorce lawyer than remaining together for their children.
This is the suggestion of a new study by researchers at Montclair State University in the US, which showed that unhappy couples who remain married could do their offspring more harm than good.
In fact, the children of people who divorced and maintained an amicable relationship apart were more likely to forge happy relationships of their own later in life, LiveScience.com reports.
However, youngsters whose parents remained married but continued to fight went on to experience conflict in their later relationships.
Lead researcher Constance Gager commented: "Kids go through a one to two-year crisis period when their parents divorce, but they are resilient and they come back from that divorce."
In May, legal adviser Nicola Matthews said in an article for North East Business that the divorce process can be made less difficult by employing a specialist family law solicitor from the beginning.
Neale Grearson, a family law partner at KCJ, adds: "The need to deal with a divorce in the right way and keeping the emotional strain to the minimum goes beyond just instructing a family law solicitor.
"Selecting resolution-trained collaborative lawyers is key to try to ensure a couple can keep control of the process and that at the end of a divorce they have the best possible opportunity to be able to work together as parents.
"Parents need to accept their joint responsibility to share parenting after a divorce which will minimise the adverse effects of a divorce on their children. Parents want to be able to attend key events in the future of their children, for example when they get married.
"The damage done during a divorce can have far reaching repercussions. The wounds can remain open, preventing parents attending important events for their children. This is very sad as whatever the reason for a divorce, a couple do not divorce their children and both parents have an equally important role in their children's lives going forward."
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