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Essay On Happy Family

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Unhappy couples should not be forced to stay together for the sake of their children. Some families are better off not living under the same roof, some people only have children to save their marriage and it does not work. An unhappy household leaves emotional baggage on the children. For children coming from a broken home, life can be chaotic and unpredictable. Growing up listening to my parents talk about divorce constantly was never easy for my siblings and I, we wanted the picture perfect family where mom and dad were together forever. How I know so much about unhappy couples is having my parents stay together just so they did not have to put us kids through a broken home. This has caused constant stress on us all rather than if they would have went …show more content…

Those kids are so dysfunctional” (Riscol 62).“In relationships there should be self sacrifice, or hard work put into it, but not to the level that you hurt yourself or your children” (Riscol 62).
I believe couples who stay together just because they have children together ar not only hurting themselves but the kids as well. When parents get divorced it is a life lesson for their children. As children grow up they find out what they want to do like their parents and what they do not want to do like their parents. Couples who are contemplating divorce should not be forced to not get a divorce for the sake of their children. We need to let people know that is it okay to get divorced, they do not have to stay in an unhappy relationship for their kids. Coming from this type of family has only made me a stronger woman. Divorce is something you never want to think of as a child but looking back on all of the unhappy times my family had to go through I would of much rather went through a divorce than see my parents push through a horrible time in their live just to give us kids what we wanted. Children who come from a broken home are not

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