Saturday, April 6, 2013

Divorce and Blending Families

Boys have a harder time with divorce than girls do.

  • Most of the time the mom's get full custody
  • boys have more aggression
  • it takes longer for them to adjust
  • boys hold things in and don't express it very well
On average, kids ages 12-15 whose parents are divorced, the father will live 400 miles away.  These can be for many reasons, but the most common are because of:
  • work
  • new relationships
  • new start
There is a study that has said that 70% of couples think that they could have worked out through their marriage 2 years after the divorce.  For blending families, it takes on average 2 years of normalcy to finally set in.  The birth parent should be the discipline of the heavy stuff, and the step/adoptive parent should be more of an uncle or an aunt.