For Parents Separating - A Letter From A Child

This talk is for anyone who is dealing with a family break up, no matter if you are a parent, a child, or a grown person whose parents separated earlier in their life. The goals of this talk are A. to inspire as much as possible, B. to be a bit of a warning, and C. to blame as little as possible. The last two goals will be difficult to achieve, but I will attempt to marry them well. This talk was written from the perspective of myself as a young child, around the time my parents divorced.

I created this talk because I want to raise awareness of breakups involving children carrying two different separations. Firstly, the separation of two people and their romantic partnership, and secondly the separation of the family nucleus. The first one is easy for a child to overcome, and the second one carries a great amount of potential trauma.