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Children of divorce also struggle with moral questions much earlier than most children——Why did this happen to me? How come Mom has one truth and Dad has another? Am I a different person with Mom than I am with Dad, or do I just feel different? Is it disloyal to act like (or sound like, or look like) one parent when I am with the other?

The author describes many of her own experiences as a child who suffered through her parents' divorces and remarriages. She believes that she became a fundamentalist Christian as a teenager for the same reasons that other teenage girls develop eating disorders--to control the body and numb the mind.

Marquardt has little good to say about society's idea of a "good divorce" and hates the term "blended family." (She says "divided family" would be more accurate, and she has a point.)]]>