Rashell – I can say with 100% certainty that my life would have been so much easier had my parents just stuck it out
My parents were young when they married. They were both 17. My mother was still in high school and pregnant. She graduated but my dad didn’t. He worked in the oilfield in Oklahoma and made great money when times were good. I was their only child. I’m 41...
Laura – I grew up in a world where marriage didn’t mean anything, and nobody stuck around for very long
I was nine years old when my parents told me they were getting a divorce. I was coming home from summer camp. I’d had a horseback-riding accident at camp and fell on my arm. I needed to see a doctor. My parents picked me up together. I told them about my arm, but they...
Christie – I’m in my 60’s and I’m still unpacking what happened to my sister and I as children
Thank you for getting the word out on what happens to children when the adults break the traditional family structure. I’ve been wanting forever to somehow get out there what happens to the emotional life of a child when you don’t have parents, family, a...