It may be welcomed. It may be understood. But even when it is a positive solution to a destructive family situation, divorce is a critical experience for its children. Although there may be relief that a painful situation has been ended, there is also regret that a healthy family could not have been created. Some say that death is easier for children to accept than divorce because death is a single event, which passes, and for which there is usually a clear-cut cause.
People mourn, grieve and have memories, but death is final.
Divorce, on the other hand, lasts forever.