In her book, What Happened to Goodbye, Sara Dessen believes that in the real world, you couldn’t really just split a family down the middle, mom on one side, dad the other, with the child equally divided between. It was like when you ripped a piece of paper in two: no matter how you tried, the seams never fit exactly right again. It was what you couldn’t see, those tiniest of pieces that were lost in the severing, and their absence kept everything from being complete. This quote sums up the effects of a divorced family. Throughout my life, my mom and dad always had a good marriage, or so I thought. They had fights and disagreements, but what married couple or even dating couple doesn’t? That’s why I think the divorce was such a shock to not only me but everyone in my family. No one ever thought they had big enough problems to get a divorce. My parents’ divorce affected me in a social, financial and emotional way. There are always many reasons that parents choose to divorce and there are many factors involved in the decision. I would assume that it is never easy for parents to decide to make this life changing decision. There are three major causes of my parents’ divorce. The first is that they just grew apart as some married couples do. Between two kids, two jobs, and everyday activities it was hard for them to make time for each other. They got caught up in the madness of everyday life. The second is that their biggest fights were over money. Even though they both had good jobs my dad spent money like it grew on trees. My mom paid the bills so she knew how much his spending hurt the financial state of our family. They would start to talk about money and before anyone knew it they were yelling and screaming over it. My dad couldn’t just be happy with a great wife and kids, he had to have the best of everything. The third, and by far the worst, is my dad’s infidelity. This caused the most division betw