Telling your kids you're getting a divorce is challenging. What you say and how you say it can shape their healing. Here are ...

When parents divorce, kids don’t get a say in the decision — even though they definitely have something to say about it afterward. We asked teens whose parents split up to share the things that made ...

When parents announce their decision to separate, the focus typically shifts to supporting younger children through the transition. However, divorce can profoundly affect adult children as well, ...

I divorced my children’s dad for a “bad” reason in their minds, and they are so angry, and I’m not sure how to work through it with them. My kids are 18 and 20, and in college. In their narrative (and ...

Divorced parents must make big adjustments to their schedules, planning ahead and preparing their kids for the new normal. Embracing non-traditional celebrations, while making up new traditions as ...

Good ex-etiquette is not about forcing friendship. It is not about pretending the relationship didn’t end or rewriting the past. It is about something much simpler and much harder: refusing to make ...

The Forum is looking for divorced parents to talk about how they continue raising their kids together for an upcoming story. To participate, please contact Tracy Frank at [email protected] and ...

My son was having a play date with a little girl in a pink dress. They sat in the dirt under the trees, making “traps” out of leaves to catch the fat, wet snails lumbering about the lawn. I stood ...

U.S. children whose parents divorce when they are age 5 or younger have reduced earnings as adults and increased chances by young adulthood of teen pregnancy, incarceration and death, according to a ...

Children of divorce before age 5 earn 13% less by age 27, according to a new study. Early childhood divorce is also linked to higher chances of teen pregnancy and incarceration. Researchers say income ...

Of all the odd and unexpected consequences of divorce — missing kitchen utensils, kids with two sets of everything, a weird sense of sadness yet liberation — this is a new one. A cross-sectional study ...