Kids aren't okay.

For the Colston Center, I'm John Stone Street with The Point.

I don't love BuzzFeeds, ClickBadie, and crowdsourced approach to content, but a recent article

caught my eye. Reddit users reveal what their childhood was like after their parents

divorced. When we were little, mom worked full time and dad stayed home with us, wrote one

user. When I was six, they separated. We only saw him once, maybe twice a year. I've never recovered from

this sudden and unexplained abandonment. Others described becoming the unintentional middleman

between their parents or trying to keep up with both of them as adults. Quote, little things

like that really take a big toll on you, said one. I always got physically ill before having to

switch houses because of the stress. And these anecdotes line up with the research.

Divorce is awful, especially for kids, even if tragically necessary.

And more often than not, our culture trips all over itself to obscure its real impact.

In order to protect adult feelings, we tell ourselves that kids will be fine, but they're not.

In fact, they deserve better.

Sometimes even BuzzFeed gets it right, and I hope people pay attention.

For the Colson Center, I'm John Stone Street with The Point.