Your Friend Is Contemplating a Divorce but Is Concerned About

Multiple Choice

Your friend is contemplating a divorce but is concerned about the negative effects of the divorce on the children. Your friend should be aware of the research showing that ____.

A) the divorce itself is the most important factor in the later difficulties among children from homes where divorce occurred
B) two parents who fight with each other create as much distress in children as the experience of divorcing parents
C) the negative effects of divorce are greater for the parents than they are for the children
D) the negative effects of divorce are largely a thing of the past