Divorce is a new beginning for the parent who wants the divorce. For children it is a destruction of the stability that comes from living in an intact family.

离婚对父母双方而言是一个全新的开始，而对其子女来说，则意味着一个完整的家庭才具有的稳定性被彻底打破。

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But go along with more and more divorce families, a new society phenomenon was become: single parent family increased and more and more single parent children were bored.

但是，随着离婚率的不断上升，出现了一种新的社会现象：单亲家庭在日益增多，单亲子女的数量急骤上升。

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The extended family, usually consisting of two separate households, formed by the children and subsequent spouses of the partners in a divorce.

扩展的家庭，通常由两个分开的家庭组成，由孩子们和离婚父母的一方和后来的配偶组成。

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It all seems a long way away from the picture of idyllic family life of the 1950s when divorce was rare, and children were seen but not heard.

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