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How To Traumatize Your Kid While Divorcing

posted 8 years ago by leiastarkiller
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This movie is like a long list of terrible things to do to your kids while breaking up.

1. Let them find out on TV about affair
2. Move them out of the only home they know
3. Move to a new city with only one parent
4. Start at a new school in the middle of the divorce
5. Start dating new people immediately
6. Yell at child and aggressively grab them for speaking to their other parent
7. Tell child you don't know if their dad loves them anymore
8. Discuss filing for divorce in front of child at her grandmothers funeral
9. Refuse to take distraught daughter, even for a weekend
10. Drive away while they scream and cry, never to be seen again?

That girl is so screwed. Terrible parenting from both mom and dad.

[–] LovesConfusingJoy 8 years ago

I think you're being too harsh. The Dad is horrible but Birdie clearly loves her very much. She isn't perfect but she's far from abusive.

[–] monstermayhem32 7 years ago

Bill was a bad dad choosing connie over his daughter. I get he wants to be happy but he was selfish.