The Rebel Faction

So then have a friendly get together for Christmas? I suppose that it could be hard but it would not have to be an annual thing. Hell, they could use the time to come up with who will have custody in the years to come or something.

I don't know. I've seen divorce have horrible effects on children just because the parents couldn't stand each other. I remember when I took my niece to her orientation for her first day of second grade, a child had both 'pairs' of remarried parents to show up. Immediately, the birth father and step-mother began trashing the birth mother and step-father before they made it into the room. Rumors like "Well, I'm not sure if she'll even show up to pick up Lauren tonight, she's so undependable!" were flying across the classroom, with the little girl and all of her new friends to hear. Let me just say... the kid looked crushed and was sullen for the rest of the time after her parental figure pairs got into a rather loud brawl in front of all of us.

I think that it would have been nice for the child to go to their mother's house on Christmas Eve and their father's house on Christmas Day, sort of split up the attention. I suppose a legal argument over the whole situation was rather immature and quick-tempered though. No matter what, the child should have come first, not the parents' arguments. Anyway, I hope they had a great holiday, after all, what else is there left to be said after it's all said and done?

Theren Gevel:

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As a person who comes from a family with numerous divorces, I think I can safely say that even that is far more simply said than done...

Ahh... but I too come from a rather dysfunctional family. It's easier said than done, but even I think that if it is at all possible for them to put their child first and put aside their differences it would be better. Either that or, as Erin said, take the child to the mother's house for Christmas Eve and the father's for Christmas Day. I'm sure the child wouldn't mind because then it'd be like having Christmas twice and who in their right mind would complain about that?

I'm new, I've been posting as Salporin Mystfire in the OOC but you wouldn't know that screen name either. Erin and I will be doing the opening RP for our characters soon.

Ahh... but I too come from a rather dysfunctional family. It's easier said than done, but even I think that if it is at all possible for them to put their child first and put aside their differences it would be better. Either that or, as Erin said, take the child to the mother's house for Christmas Eve and the father's for Christmas Day. I'm sure the child wouldn't mind because then it'd be like having Christmas twice and who in their right mind would complain about that?

Not knowing the situation in this case, it's a difficult call to make. All I'm saying is that if cracks run deep enough, putting both parts of a split family together in one room might be a pretty disasterous thing to do... time bomb, and all that.