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Keeping your family together during a divorce can be hard...but certainly not impossible!

8 Ways To Help Your Children Through Divorce [EXPERT]

Telling your children about divorce can be difficult, but there are ways to make it less painful!

With divorce rates in America topping over 50%, the sad truth is that many parents will be faced with telling their children they are getting divorced. Divorce can have negative effects on children, but based on how it is handled, divorce can also have the potential of making family situations better. Kids are smart. Because the relationship has likely already shown signs of trouble, the news may not come as a complete shock to them. Some kids may even feel a confusing sense of relief. How and when to tell children is an important factor, however. Here are some guidelines to help.

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Will your parents' divorce affect your own happiness in marriage?

Love Bytes: Are You Destined For Marriage Failure?

Plus, how to have a quickie without getting caught!

Everybody manscape now. What was your first time like? What is the first year of marriage "really" like? The importance of sexual chemistry. The truth about being a bridesmaid. How to have a quickie and not get caught. When is chivalry a little too much? The porn industry is mandating condom use. Great, non-hormonal birth control methods. Does your parents' failure at marriage doom you? Never date a guy named "Tom."

Am I Doomed To Get Divorced Like My Parents?
Am I Doomed To Get Divorced Like My Parents?

Am I Doomed To Get Divorced Like My Parents? [VIDEO]

How to overcome the problems of our parents and have a very successful relationship.

Your parents divorced when you were just a kid. You remember the arguing, then the moving out and eventually going to two separate places to celebrate the holidays. It's a tough thing for any son or daughter, young or old, to go through. Now, you're worried that your parents' problems will crop up in your own relationship and everything will end the same way. How do you avoid this? My Husband And I Fight All The Time; Is Our Marriage Failing? [VIDEO]

Is Sam Mendes Rebounding With Rachel Weisz?

Is Sam Mendes Rebounding With Rachel Weisz?

Kate Winslet fuming over Sam Mendes's friendship with his ex-girlfriend Rachel Weisz.

Kate Winslet is furious that her soon-to-be ex-husband, Sam Mendes, has been in contact with his ex-girlfriend, actress Rachel Weisz, but Kate is putting on a happy face for her kids.

Jon Gosselin's Newest Fling

Jon Gosselin's Newest Fling

Skeezy Jon has another 20-something girlfriend!

Jon Gosselin's New Year's resolution must have been out with the old, in with the new, because the father of eight spent New Year's with a 23-year-old brunette named Morgan rather than ex Hailey Glassman.

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Jon And Kate Will Spend Christmas Together

And their eight kids will have something else to tell their eight therapists.

Jon and Kate Gosselin plan to spend Christmas together with their eight kids, three ex-lovers, two dogs, one marriage rent asunder, and a partridge in a pear tree.

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Christie Brinkley Divorce Finally Over

Brinkley and ex-husband snipe while judge rules on custody.

The divorce proceedings between Christie Brinkley and her fourth ex-husband, architect Peter Cook, are over. We think.

Katie "Jordan" Price And Peter Andre Divorcing

Katie "Jordan" Price And Peter Andre Divorcing

The British reality couple is splitting up after three years. We are bereft.

Katie Price, a British glamour (that means topless, American friends) model sometimes called Jordan, and her excessively spray-tanned husband, Peter Andre, are divorcing after almost five years of marriage, The Daily Mail reports. Equine enthusiast Katie and hilarious Disney cover artist Peter, who met on the UK version of I'm a Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here! in 2004, announced Monday that they would end their marriage.