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A young child sits on his bed with tears rolling down his face. His mother and father stare at him with a distraught look on their face. The little boy asks, "If parents stop being married, can they decide not to be a mommy or a daddy anymore?" His mother leans ....

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.... children that they are getting divorced. Children usually know when their parents aren't happy and may feel confused about the situation. Barb Clark, a divorce counselor and psychologist, suggests different ways to communicate to your children about divorce. She recommends that children need to be told about the divorce before it happens (Divorce: Telling the Children. http://web.tusco.net/pfcs/prog%2033.htm). However, many parents fail to tell their children that a divorce is in the near future. For instance, John Lewis and his wife Phylis decided to get a divorce after several years of marriage. Their son Brian was 14 years of ag ....