Building Bridges


Background (continued)


Divorce typically results in significant losses for all members of the family, losses that characteristically affect every part of each person's life. Adults and children are likely to lose a familiar household structure, home, neighborhood, children's school and friends, daily parent-child contact, economic status, established routines, physical and psychological well-being, and the feelings of safety and security that come from a sense of family stability and permanence. To the extent that the effects of these losses interact to create - or maintain - conflicted and dysfunctional relationships between parents, between parents and children, and between siblings, the children are likely to be harmed.

5. Which of these losses commonly occur(s) in divorce?

a. familiar household structure
b. home, neighborhood, children's school and friends
c. established routines and economic status
d. all of the above

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