The experience of divorce and its long term impact will be unique to the child. We could imagine both negative and positive results, depending on the child and on their lives post divorce. There are situations where children fare better after the divorce. Divorce is a tool. Norma Walsh, a noted family researcher, is not alone in her field when she states that the family processes and quality of family relationships remain the most significant predictor for health in families, divorced or not.
Families experiencing divorce have the same range of functionality as intact families.
Family researchers have found that it is not divorce that creates long term disturbance in children, but three other significant factors related to post separation changes. Change in quality of the relationship with a parent following divorce, and The number and degree of other stressors induced by the separation for the child. Minimizing the above factors in a child's life increases stability and the child's ability to benefit from the divorce. Divorce does not change the fact that parents have a responsibility to continue to raise their child together and to keep in the forefront of their minds what is in the best interests of the child throughout the process. We should not embrace divorce as an answer to all our problems, because it does cause more problems which need thorough consideration.