'We're getting a divorce' are words all parents dread to hear from their married son or daughter. Yet when your children divorce, your grandchildren need you more than ever.
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'We're getting a divorce' are words all
parents dread to hear from their married son or daughter. As the number of divorces increases, so do the number of 'divorced' parents and grandparents. The fall out from divorce affects so many people - not only the couple and their children, but the rest of the family and friends too. In one fell swoop dreams that a parent had for their child can come tumbling down. A young family - which seemed so secure from the outside - about to fall apart? What will it mean? And, more ominously, what will it mean for the grandparents? After a divorce, where do the grandparents fit it? For some, it will mean almost immediately more 'hands on' contact with the grandchildren. A lone mother or father may need to find work or work longer hours, and grandparents if living nearby, may be called to care for the children some of the time. That may be a mixed blessing, delight at being with the grandchildren, weighed against the shattered peace of retirement, or as grandparents who are younger and still working find, they are once again juggling work with school hours and holidays. |
After
a divorce, where do grandparents fit in? To help take extra good care of the grandchildren
as the parents go through rough times.
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