And then, mom and step-dad decide it’s just not working out and there’s another divorce. What next?

Remarriage, the second divorce and the relationship tangle

Carolyn Moynihan

• Children, as a rule, hate divorce. 
• They not only lose one parent from their home but they may lose their home as well and have to move away from friends, school and relations. 
• Then their resident parent may strike up a new relationship and they have to work out just how to deal with this new adult whom their mom or dad wants them to like. 
• Perhaps the new partner has their own child or children, and perhaps one day there’s another marriage and they all move into another house together. Now they have a step-parent and step-siblings to try and get along with, and the extended family of the steps…
• And then, mom and step-dad decide it’s just not working out and there’s another divorce. 
• What next? 

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