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- From: petel@sequent.com (Pete Lancashire)
- Newsgroups: alt.polyamory,soc.singles,alt.pagan
- Subject: Re: Monogamy, Polygamy, and raising children (Was: Falling in Love
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.232521.1302@sequent.com>
- Date: 17 Nov 92 23:25:21 GMT
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- fks@vax.ftp.com (Frances K. Selkirk) writes:
-
- >I have to chime in with the folks who say that divorce is not as
- >detrimental to kids as a bad marriage. When my parents were getting
- >divorced it was very upseting (I was 11-13), but when the divorce was
- >finalized everything became a lot better. The two years of litigation
- >were pretty awful, but even that wasn't as bad as the fighting the
- >year before they decided to divorce.
-
- Mine stayed together for the same reason, me. They did not split up
- until i left at 17. For me when I was 8 or 9, I 'went and found'
- another set of parents, a family that lived down the street. If
- it wasn't for them I would more scrweed up than I was (am).
-
- -pete
- petel@sequent.com
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