Reply To: should parents stay together for the children?

Speaking from unfortunate personal experience, he and his wife should do their best to get help for themselves individually and as a couple. They should make every effort to make the marriage work. With rare exceptions (like physical abuse)No marriage falls apart solely because of one partner. And it does impact the kids. But I can tell you that it also impacts the kids if the parents fall deeper into animosity and blame within the marriage. So when all efforts have been made, it is my experience that they should split. My relationship with my kids has got better, not worse since we did so.