Statistics now show that 53% of marriages end in divorce. (60% of second marriages fail also.)

Of those marriages ending in divorce, roughly 60% involve teens living at home.

Teens react differently to divorce... Some will go through periods of anxiety, anger, grief, feelings of rejection and vulnerability, loneliness, and conflicted loyalties.

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Studies on how divorce affects teens have shown that teens, like their parents, usually feel a great deal of stress and psychological pain during the first months following their parents' separation and divorce. Teens whose parents are divorcing do best when they are protected from their parents' conflicts, their parents use cooperation rather than conflict to resolve differences, they maintain close, regular contact with both parents, they feel free to love both of their parents, and their parents talk-to and listen-to them through the divorce.

When talking to your teen about the other spouse, keep your personal feelings out of the situation and do not negatively degrade the ex-spouse. The teen knows that they are a product of both parents; therefore saying negative things about the ex-spouse translates in their minds that there is something awful about them, too.