We’ve all heard about how divorce
is bad for kids
and that’s challenging to hear
because
40% of all marriages
end in divorce.
But we rarely hear about
how divorce can benefit kids,
especially career-wise
later in their lives.
“Because I have a family
of stepbrothers and stepsisters
and a younger stepmom,
I now really look at people
in terms of more than
just what they do at the company.
They come with history.
They come with outside lives.
I think that trying to understand them
as human beings versus workers
has really helped,
and understanding that
different people fit in different ways.
I don’t know who I would have been
if I’d had the white-picket-fence upbringing.
As difficult as my childhood was at times,
I think that the texture it added
to my life was worth it.”
My parents are divorced
and I think I benefited from that challenge also.
You don’t need to have a perfect family
to be successful.