Ways in Which Parents Sometimes Draw Children into Divorce, Intentionally or Not
Consciously or unconsciouly, one or both parents in divorce sometimes draw their children into the following roles:
- Spy on the Other Parent
- Side-Taker against the Other Parent
- Messengers to the Other Parent
- Partner or Confidante
- Household Finances Stretcher
- Teenager Peer
- Spoiled as Compensation
- Pawns in Visitation and Custody Battles
- Captive Audience to Disparagement of Other Parent
- Tool Wielded to Manipulate or Control the Other Parent
Drawing children in to the divorce is damaging to them both psychologically and emotionally.
Read more in this Tampa Bay [FL] Examiner article: Divorce and the games parents play.
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