Children of divorce: What they feel about access and other aspects of the divorce experience∗
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Abstract
Abstract A sample of 92 children of divorce, ranging in age from 9–28 years was obtained from the records of the Cape Town Supreme Court, South Africa. The children were interviewed with a view to eliciting feelings regarding parents staying together in an unhappy marriage "for the sake of the children";, access arrangements, the extent to which they experienced the divorce as traumatic, together with other aspects of the divorce experience. Viewpoints expressed by the children suggested that they perceived an ongoing unhappy marriage as more conflict‐arousing for themselves than the divorce itself. It was strongly revealed that freedom of access to non‐custodial parent was highly valued by the children.