Grief, guilt, sadness, anger and isolation are all feelings a child may experience when his parents are about to separate. During the transitional period, routines change and interactions among the family change. The family must adjust to a new way of life. These changes can be tough for a child to handle. Time is of the essence here.
Children sometimes get the brunt of the whole divorce, having feelings of sadness, guilt and anger.
They feel helpless that they cannot solve their parents' problems or even may feel that he or she is the source of the problems. It is a fact that if a child's feelings are ignored and not dealt with properly, the child will grow up having a hard time developing intimate relationships and will have severe self-image problems. Children are more likely to go through a divorce themselves later in life it their parents were divorced. Some children will have grand delusions that they can somehow get their parents back together, while others may just go into a depression and develop many problems with school, eating, sleeping and the like. Older children will be more likely to feel they need to become the replacement for the other parent.