Primal Loss: The Now-Adult Children of Divorce Speak

Summary

Seventy now-adult children of divorce give their candid and often heart-wrenching answers to eight questions (arranged in eight chapters, by question), What were the main effects of your parents’ divorce on your life? What do you say to those who claim that and “children are resilient and ” and and “children are happy when their parents are happy and “? What would you like to tell your parents then and now? What do you want adults in our culture to know about divorce? What role has your faith played in your healing?Their simple and poignant responses are difficult to read and yet not without hope. Most of the contributors–women and men, young and old, single and married–have never spoken of the pain and consequences of their parents’ divorce until now. They have often never been asked, and they believe that no one really wants to know. (The friend of Leila Miller who inspired the book asked Miller as she and “Do you think anyone will actually care? Will anyone want to read it? and “) Despite vastly different circumstances and details, the similarities in their testimonies are striking; as the reader will discover, the death of a child’s family impacts the human heart in universal ways.