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[quote=Anonymous]There's never a good time. My parents divorced when I was 16. Looking back, they were waiting for me to get my drivers license (rural living!) because that made the logistics so much easier for everyone. But having to live across two houses was really crappy.

The benefit of waiting until college is that your kids don't have to live day-to-day joint custody, they only have to do it on the holidays for the rest of their lives. And they don't have to witness the splitting-up of the stuff, the moving of furniture, etc. I remember living in my mom's house with moving boxes piled all around and then going back to my dad's with a giant gaping hole where the couch used to be. It was horrid. And also seeing them very poorly conceal their dating, which in a small town setting is MISERABLE because everyone knows everyone. So having experienced the high school age version, I do think there's a lot to be said for waiting until college.

But if you do it fall freshman year, you're really traumatizing them. It pulls the rug out from under them at a very sensitive moment. [/quote]

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