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The Impact of a Gray Divorce on Adult Children

Some months back, my colleague Andrea Vacca, a collaborative divorce professional, wrote about the financial implications of gray divorce (divorcing over age 50). She referenced an article in Forbes that discussed the many areas of life that are affected by gray divorce, including the impact on adult children. Regardless of age, divorce often draws adult children away from their progress into finding their own identities, careers, and love, and back into the family dynamic.

Divorcing Over 50: What to Expect

The term “gray divorce” refers to people who divorce later in life, generally after long marriages.

In the article, “Divorce After 50: What I Wish I Had Known Beforehand” (originally published on Marketwatch), people going through gray divorces share information that they wish they could have shared with their younger selves, thus providing important considerations for others.

The Invisible Children: Adult Children of Gray Divorces

{Read in 2 minutes} The topic of the recent New York Times article Never Too Old To Hurt From Parents’ Divorce is one that receives too little consideration: the so-called “gray divorce.”

We give plenty of thought to the effect of divorce on young children, resulting in ample research and accessibility to counseling. That is a good thing, to be sure. But what about divorcing couples who are older and their children are already grown? Increasingly, divorces occur after age 50. How do those divorces affect the adult children? What help is available to them?