In A “The Kid’S Guide To Divorce” By Lorrie Moore, A Young

In a â€Å"The Kid’s Guide to Divorce† by Lorrie Moore, a young child is learning to cope and deal with her parent’s divorce in her own way which includes feeling the need to cater to each individual parent by selecting word choice that won’t make them feel uncomfortable. She even goes to the lengths of comparing them to scary characters on late night television which suggest that she is feeling more emotions. The story put an emphasize on the child’s perspective of what is happening and shows the true emotions of pain and temporary happiness that she is feeling internally and how she is dealing with them. It is beneficial to apply the psychological perspective to this moment of conflict within the child because divorce has a tendency to be a†¦show more content†¦No human deserves to be unhappy but a study found that they won’t be unhappy forever if they stay in that marriage. â€Å"A survey found that 86% of people who were unhappi ly married in the late 1980s, and stayed with the marriage, were happier when interviewed five years later (Why). Actually, 60% of them rated their marriage to be either â€Å"very happy† or â€Å"quite happy† (Why). It makes you wonder if the couple in the story could’ve sucked it up and stayed together it could’ve resulted in happiness for the couple and less emotional toll for their daughter. Divorce is is already a messy situation but the second a child gets thrown in the middle of this situation, it gets even more complicated. It is the end of a marriage for the couple but it is the end of a family for the child. Not every child is affected the same. There are a list of things that change emotionally for kids of divorce. They withdraw, they have a stronger temper, they doubt love, they deal with guilt, and having different coping mechanisms with loss (What). Children of divorce miss out on things like family dinner, which plays a bigger role in childhood development than we think. Statistically, according to the CASA report, Children â€Å"who eat with their family fewer than three times a week, 20% get C s or lower on their report cards (Klein).† Children of divorced parents never