The Children of Divorce: The Loss of Family as the Loss of Being

Why does divorce cause so much strain and long-term distress for children of all ages?

Andrew Root, a recognized authority on youth ministry and a child of divorce himself, explains that divorce causes children to question their core identity. Since a child is the product of the union of a mother and father, when that union ends, he or she experiences a baffling sense of loss of self—a loss of his or her very sense of being. Root redirects efforts for assisting children of divorce to first a...