or the sake of the children (Hester 2).Whether a divorce is good or bad, nearly half of all marriages in todays modern age end in divorce. According to Frank F. Furstunberg and Andrew J. Cherlin, two leading divorce researchers an estimated 15 percent of all children in divorced families will see the parent they live with remarry and redivorce before they reach age 18.(Chira 01E) Divorce is affecting about one million new children every year (Parents.com). Even though that seems like a lot of broken marriages the nation wide divorce rate has declined, and there is evidence that people are taking into a deeper look into divorce and how it is affecting our children (Stein 1A). On the brighter side of things the majority of the effects that a divorce has on children can be resolved with the help of the childrens parents....
