Will she EVER just go away? She's baacck!

[antlers]

We almost treat children of divorce as if they're a different species of children. Suddenly it's fine for these kids to regularly spend days away from their father, and then days away from their mother. It's the kind of thing that the average married parent would never conceive of doing to their child. 
Parents who wonder how they can make divorce easier for their children are missing the point: Divorce is never easy on kids. 
The problem is that it just fundamentally restructures a childhood. When you divide one home into two, it really deeply shapes children at the level of their moral and spiritual development. 

The death of a parent is less devastating to a child than a divorce.