# Are you a divorced kid? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [April 10, 2002, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-divorced-kid/102744 "2002-04-10T00:26:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Winkie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/41988e/32.png) [@Winkie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Winkie)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2002, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-divorced-kid/102744/41 "2002-04-11T00:50:08Z")
I was 5 when my parents divorced. It was a good thing for all involved, although it sucked at the time. I recently asked my mom how they told me – she said “Well, after I moved all of his stuff out onto the front yard and told him Tuesday was trash day, I don’t think there was much left to tell you.” For some reason, that really cracks me up. ---
**Author:** ![dwyr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dwyr/32/363_2.png) [@dwyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dwyr)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2002, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-divorced-kid/102744/42 "2002-04-11T00:52:16Z")
I was eleven. ---
**Author:** ![sandalfeet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a5b964/32.png) [@sandalfeet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sandalfeet)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2002, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-divorced-kid/102744/43 "2002-04-11T02:03:54Z")
1 or 2. growing up like that, it boggled my mind when i would go to a friends house and BOTH parents would be there ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2002, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-divorced-kid/102744/44 "2002-04-11T02:58:45Z")
Mine split when I was eight, not the nastiest divorce I’ve ever witnessed (that belongs to my first girlfriend’s parents), but still pretty ugly, and they _still_ bitch about the other one some 25 years later! I was the only one still living at home when it happened and I’m the only one of my two brothers who isn’t married. ---
**Author:** ![greenlady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/6f9a4e/32.png) [@greenlady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/greenlady)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2002, 11:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-divorced-kid/102744/45 "2002-04-11T11:11:57Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by sandalfeet \* > \*\*1 or 2. growing up like that, it boggled my mind when i would go to a friends house and BOTH parents would be there \*\* Me too! Growing up, me and my sister’s best friend also lived with just her mom and visited her father on weekends (just like me and sis). Geez, I thought that’s how _normal_ families were set up, and seeing a dad occasionaly in a different friend’s house was just freaky. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Arden\_Ranger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b487fb/32.png) [@Arden\_Ranger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arden_Ranger)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2002, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-divorced-kid/102744/46 "2002-04-11T12:22:48Z")
I was five. Haven’t seen my father since. ---
**Author:** ![Mondeo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a88e57/32.png) [@Mondeo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mondeo)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2002, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-divorced-kid/102744/47 "2002-04-11T12:37:38Z")
6 months, and I never saw my biological father after that. But a year later my mom married another man, and that was my father till he died when I was 34. ---
**Author:** ![Tattva](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ba8739/32.png) [@Tattva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tattva)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2002, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-divorced-kid/102744/48 "2002-04-11T13:43:11Z")
My parents are currently in the throes of separation, but the way it’s going I could be 24 or 40 when the divorce is finalized. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-divorced-kid/102744.md?page=2)