Divorce Makes Kids More Vulnerable to Getting Hurt Online
November 1, 2022
The “good divorce” is back.
In the last two years, the mainstream media have published article after article — from the Atlantic (“How I Demolished My Life: A Home Improvement Story”) to the New York Times (“Divorce Can Be an Act of Radical Self-Love”) — celebrating divorce in particular and family diversity in general. Echoing the ’70s view that “children were resilient in the face of divorce . . . and that children would be happier if their parents were able to leave unhappy marriages,” the new apostles for family diversity tell us that family instability is no big deal in 21st-century America.
