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I also think a lot of the people who claim to be ok with their parents divorce either haven't experienced having elderly parents, or are too short-sighted to think about what it will be like. I'll meet you in the airport bathroom and we can cry together as we fly from one parental health crisis to another [/quote]

My parents live in the DC area, so that part of it was easier for me.  I agree with you that it is harder to take care of elderly parents separately, but I still don't think that means my parents owed it to me to stay married to people they didn't like to make my life easier as an adult.  They stayed married until I started high school, and that was enough.  [/quote]

I don't think anyone owes it to the kids to stay married.  But I do think they owe it to the kids to take into account the entire impact of divorce, and that includes the impact later in life.  Actually I was 40 when my parents divorced (I'm not the PP) and it has been really hard for everyone.  Their second and third marriages brought a lot of problems and made life a lot more complicated, and now the elder care is difficult and complicated as well.  It's not like you turn 18 and all of a sudden divorce doesn't affect you.  I think my parents were right to divorce, but it certainly does affect all of us-- more and more every year as they age.[/quote]

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