Kids usually deal with a divorce a lot harder than their parents.
At first, they don't want their parents to get divorced, although the parents are the ones who are involved in the conflict, not the kids.
While their parents have serious reasons for getting divorced, kids very rarely understand that they don't have any control on the divorce.
They don't have any decisions in their hands, especially decisions such as the ones referring to who they want to live in and who they can see from time to time.
Finally, kids, especially the younger ones, aren't mature enough to overcome such an experience which can prove overwhelming.
The kid usually starts asking a lot of questions they cannot answer and that no one helps them with.
Probably the most tormenting one is to whom they belong.
They see themselves forced to stay with one of their parents, even if they might want the other one.
If they stay with the parent they don't want, they can blame the other parent, but they can also blame themselves, feeling guilty, unloved, rejected and so on.
This is how kids usually end up isolated from their friends and from society.
Another frequent problem is that of the identification of their sexual purposes.
There can be a lot of problems when it comes to assuming an identity correctly and there can also be a lot of cases in which kids turn out to be gay and prefer being more special than others, somehow compensating for what the divorce has put them through.