Divorce can affect a family more positively in the long run than if a couple stayed unhappily married. Children normally respond very negatively to their parents separating, but if a couple decides to stick together for their child's sake, the negative atmosphere surrounding the child could scar him or her forever. For the adults, a separation hurts, but most people realize the necessity of the situation. If two people stay together for the wrong reasons, …
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…a divorce. The parents also benefit from the more positive atmosphere. Living unhappily with a person can wear on the nerves and make life dreary. A person does not want to decrease their chances for a happy relationship outside of their own failing one by staying unhappily with their spouse either. Divorce, while devastating, can have more of a positive effect on the whole family than if they the parents lived unhappily with each other.