Divorce as birth control?

Being divorced with children can be great birth control for your kids.

When your child sees you as a single parent-doing lots of tasks alone-they are able to see what being a parent really entails.

Your kids may see you financially burdened or physically exhausted. (Because as a single parent this sometimes happens.)

They might witness Mom struggle with finances and Dad struggle with balancing priorities or vice versa.

My daughter is 13 and she has already said, repeatedly, ‘I do not want kids’. She is a fabulous big sister and is super with all kids, but has watched her mother and father be single parents and so she has seen that being a parent is not as easy as it looked like when Mom and Dad were together.

Sure, she is only 13 and may change her mind, and that’s all well and good, but for now she is in no rush.

Ideally, children of divorce will see sides of parenthood they aren’t interested in, helping them to put off sex and  matrimony for the latter years.

We can only hope.

Truly,

Amber