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Pourquoi mes parents se sont-ils séparés?

Les questions des enfants face à la séparation de leurs parents

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Abstract

All the children of divorcees ask the question about the causes of the separation of their parents at least once in their life. This question — Why have my parents divorced? — hides various psychological problematics in which they are caught. Starting from an enqury with adolescents, I will develop two of them: a questioning of their sexual identity through love relations and on the sense of their birth.

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Todos los niños de padres divorciados se preguntan por lo menos una vez en su vida “Porque se han divorciado mis padres? La pregunta esconde varios problemas psicologicos que les preocupan a los niños cuanddo sus padres se separan. El articulo examina traves de un detallado trabajo hecho con adolescentes los cuales luchan por entender su propia identidad sexual a travers de relaciones amorosas y describen su busqueda para entender el porque de su “nacimiento”.

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Thevenot, A. Pourquoi mes parents se sont-ils séparés?. IJEC 27, 36 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03178103

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