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Divorce is a tragedy, especially if there are children involved. How do you explain to them why mommy and daddy no longer want to live together?

And what if there are two children in the family, a boy and a girl, and the parents decided to 'divide' them? The son stays with his father, and the daughter with her mother.

Such things happen quite often. How do you tell children the truth about what led to the divorce, what reasons for separation the adults had?

Why couldn't they come to an agreement, yielding to their own emotions and grievances? And why do parents not understand that the mistakes of adults are always paid for by the children? Masha Traub