My name is Katy Faust and I am the founder and president of Them Before Us. We are a global movement defending children’s right to their mother and father. That makes us fierce opponents of divorce.
“Divorce” is another term for the death of a family. With it often comes the death of a child’s feelings of safety and security; it’s the end of one home, of love shared by the two people the child loves most, and of time spent with both parents daily. Divorce is often the act of adults trading their own relationship troubles for their child’s long-term physical and emotional health. Divorce is categorized as an adverse childhood experience (ACE). ACE’s “are potentially traumatic events that can have negative lasting effects on health and well-being.” 1 very often divorce results in other aces as well.
Despite the very clear harm to children, there are times when divorce may be necessary. In both civic law and religious traditions, exits from this lifelong union have been allowed when one spouse breaks their vow to have and to hold from this day forward, for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health, to ...
