While all children need their parents as role models, a divorced parent sets and example with added potency. As your children grow up, they need your active encouragement in learning how to trust and to believe that their own relationships will endure. They need to understand from you that an unsuccessful marriage is not a random natural disaster but the result of human error that you and others can help them avoid. They need a vote of confidence from you.

— What About the Kids: Raising Your Children Before, During and After Divorce. Judith S. Wallerstein and Sandra Blakeslee, 2003, Hyperion. Final page.