Challenges of High Conflict Divorce
October 28, 2009
According to researchers, approximately thirty percent of all divorces have periods of intense parent to parent conflict. These parents are the biggest cause for their children’s struggles with divorce. When parents are in high conflict divorces, children suffer. The research clearly supports this basic fact.
It is these families who also end up in the court system, and are often engaged with Child Protective Services or with mental health professionals.
These are also the families who often cause the most distress for family court judges, law guardians, matrimonial attorneys, and mental health professionals. Often, these families contain parents who struggle with depression, substance abuse, personality disorders, and a wealth of dysfunctional patterns.