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of Unchanging Truth.

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

At the end of the 1993 movie Mrs. Doubtfire, Robin Williams and the persona of the elderly

female title character explained divorce to the children.

Here's what he said, quote,

Some parents, when they're angry, get along much better when they don't live together.

They don't fight all the time.

They can become better people and much better mommies and daddies for you.

And sometimes they get back together.

Sometimes they don't.

And if they don't, don't blame yourself just because they don't love each other anymore,

doesn't mean they don't love you.

End quote.

Well the script writer and the director weren't the only ones to embrace this wishful thinking

about divorce then and even now.

We hear all the time, you know, kids are resilient.

They're better off with happy parents rather than married ones.

However, 30 years later, the evidence is overwhelming that this way of thinking about

marriage and divorce.

It's just wrong.

No matter the reason, divorce is especially costly for children.

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