The Devastating Cost of High-Conflict Divorce on Your Children

Your divorce doesn't just affect you—it's reshaping your children's entire world, and the data is undeniable.

Teenagers caught in high-conflict divorces face alarming risks: increased depression, anxiety, and academic decline. Studies show they're more likely to engage in substance abuse and struggle with trust in their own future relationships. The constant tension between warring parents doesn't teach resilience—it teaches survival mode.

Younger children suffer differently but no less severely. They internalize parental conflict as their fault, developing behavioral problems and attachment issues that can persist for decades. The fighting they witness becomes their blueprint for how relationships work.

Here's the truth: your children are absorbing every hostile text, every courtroom battle, every poisonous comment about their other parent. This isn't about winning—it's about the psychological warfare your kids never signed up for.

There is a better way. Professional coparenting services provide the structure, communication tools, and neutral support that transform toxic dynamics into functional partnerships. Your children deserve parents who can put them first, even when putting each other first is impossible.

Stop the damage. Start coparenting effectively. Your children's future depends on the choice you make today.

Sherita

Sherita Lynch is the founder of Time Share Your Kid, a coaching and mediation practice helping parents build peaceful, child-centered parenting plans without going to court. With over a decade of experience in family law, human services, and conflict resolution, Sherita specializes in alternative dispute resolution, co-parent coaching, and virtual mediation. Her work empowers families to move forward with clarity, confidence, and cooperation.

https://www.timeshareyourkid.com
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