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How adult children can navigate parents' late-life divorce

My parents are getting divorced after forty-three years and they both keep trying to get me to take sides and I just want them to figure it out without destroying our family in the process.

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Parents' marital dissolution can force adult children into mediator roles that violate their own need for stable family structures.

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