A report, Children's views of their changing families, found that as many as one in four children said no-one talked to them about the separation at the time. Researchers interviewed children aged from five and encouraged them to draw or 'map' their family relationships.
Co-author Professor Judy Dunn said, 'The children identified a number of important issues which parents and those who advise families will find helpful. These include the way many children are left feeling they do not know what is happening when parents separate, and the danger that they will interpret this as meaning they are no longer loved by the parent who has left.'
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