I think many people don’t realize how difficult life is for a child of divorced parents. Sometimes, a child of divorced parents can actually have it worse than a child with a deceased parent. This can be due to a lack of sympathy and care that a child of divorced parents so desperately needs, yet people tend to not want to get involved in such a “messy” situation. And often, the child has essentially “lost” a parent. On the other hand, sometimes a child with a deceased parent, though an extremely difficult thing to deal with, receives sympathy, care, and attention, since people, thankfully, rise to the occasion when they hear of an untimely death.
This isn’t always the case, but it happens enough for it to be said.