But that is also part of the growing process as we learn to live with and accept life and all its variables. As a wise man once said, accept what you can't change, change what can be changed. The coping skills we need as adults are developed in childhood. Within the family unit these coping skills are fostered. Family life teaches us that for every action there is a consequence.
Wrong decisions lead to trouble.
When children have the support of both mother and father they can face these realities with the strength of the love that sustains them. Compromise is also important. Children who grow up seeing how their parents work out their differences and come to compromise solutions, will be better able to assimilate this ideal in their own lives. In a family all these trials and successes bind us together. To keep a marriage vital there needs to be time to be a couple away from the children, away from other family members and even friends.