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Started Dec 07 2012, 03:51
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Dec 07 2012, 03:51
My older daughter got married twenty-five years after her father and I divorced. A large family group took part in the ceremony, including my ex-husband, his wife, their two children, and my younger daughter. Looking at the video, I see two proud and happy parents walking their daughter down the aisle. From these images of smiling, laughing people, a stranger could never tell that this couple had not been husband and wife for the past twenty-five years -- unless he or she noticed the three beaming parents to the right of the bride during the altar scene. This family constellation is like many others around the world: families in which one or both sets of parents are divorced.
Those who witnessed our stormy, acrimonious parting in 1965 would never have predicted that my ex-husband and I could share the wedding of our child politely, let alone joyously. Although many things have changed since I joined the ranks of the formerly married (such as the availability of no-fault divorce and joint custody), the emotional experience and the need for divorced parents to find ways to continue to be involved in their children's lives remains unchanged. One thing that has changed dramatically, however, is the increase in the divorce rates, which means that there are many more of us now who need to find ways to work out how we're going to parent our children in the best possible way after divorce.
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Riya
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