Gosselins Reach Truce for Twins' Birthdays

(8 Oct. 2009) Isn’t it just fascinating that someone’s name could be misspelled on a birthday cake? Oh. My. God. Jon Gosselin (who is he, again?) was, like, able to see his two daughters on their birthday. His soon-to-be ex-wife Kate, like, did not kick him out of the house.

Wow. I feel enlightened. Picking through bits and pieces of People magazine can be entertaining at times, I’ll admit. But one thing I’ll never fully comprehend is how articles such as this one make headlines.

Yet despite the brain cells I may have lost reading about the Gosselins, it did get me thinking about divorce and its effect on the youths of our nation. In a society where break-ups have become just as commonplace as marriage, how are people coping with everyone from step-parents to step-siblings to step-cousins? Sometimes divorce may be the best immediate answer to a failing marriage, but are there any ways to detect and avoid a hasty break-up?

Or are children becoming immune to divorce as it becomes an expected outcome of marriage?