Yet the three sons from that marriage are all divorced. You think you're never going to be divorced, and then you reach a point where it is an option and you don't know how you got there. It's not that it's acceptable, but it happens. I don't know if it's better. Every generation, there is a higher percentage of divorced parents who get along.
Divorce is less traumatic.
Studies show fewer and fewer differences between the children of divorce and the children of parents not divorced. Sydney's teachers say she has never seemed stressed about her parents' divorce, even at a time when she had bedrooms in four different homes. It used to be like a scarlet letter. Now it's like you've got four parents at a school function. That's the silver lining.