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Whenever a couple gets divorced, the first question their friends and extended family wonder about is, what about the kids?

We know the way parents handle things can make a huge difference. What we don’t often think about is how the kids themselves help each other or not, notes divorce psychologist Judith Wallerstein. Sometimes, her research indicates, they become like parents to younger siblings; for some, their brothers and sisters are their only friends. Often, she says, their favorite childhood memories are of “their close relationships with their siblings, which they credit with sustaining them over the post divorce years.”

via Vicki Larson: Is Divorce Harder On An Only Child?.