Today, one in two couples separate.
But if marital breakdown has become a quasi-social norm, the violence that it often generates in the psychological lives of children remains a blind spot in repeated divorces.
Attentive in the daily life of her office to all forms of violence and control, the psychiatrist Marie-France Hirigoyen dwells in her new essay on the suffering of children caught witnessing the separation of their parents.
Twenty-five years after her pioneering book on moral harassment, she warns of the psychological damage when parents disagree over custody, and campaigns for more effective mediation.
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Why does the subject of childhood in danger in the case of conflictual parental separations mobilize you today?Marie-France Hirigoyen.
– I write from my clinical experience, which provides a good vantage point for observing daily suffering.
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