Stacey Nelkin

The last thing any parent wants to do is put his or her child through divorce. Though it's impossible to deny the many hardships children of divorce face, sometimes a split can actually have a positive impact on kids, as writer Stacey Nelkin recently suggested in a HuffPost Divorce blog. "While divorce may be traumatic for children, it cannot be worse than growing up in a home where their parents can barely contain their animosity towards on...

A recent poll in Britain shows that even divorcees feel that getting divorced is too easy. Maybe it's because I'm an American, but I beg to differ. I've been through two divorces, and while the first was relatively simple because I signed a pre-nuptial agreement, neither experience could be described as easy. Heart and gut wrenching was more like it. Saying goodbye to all that could and should have been was incredibly anguishing. Yes, having signed a prenup made the logi...