The sucky part is I think they all have kids.
I can only imagine your parents never divorced or you're an oversensitive whiner.
Parents divorcing is rarely distressing for kids in my personal experience, and it definately is not an obligatorily upsetting situation. "staying together for the kids" is just nuts.
My parents are two separate people. If one or both no longer wants to be in a relationship then I'm happy for them to make a change. The only difference it has made to my childhood is I got Christmas at 2 houses instead of 1. Even at the age of 6, I understood that my . In my early, so if anything divorce was a positive affect on my relationship with my parents.
Out of all my close friends whose parents divorced non of them feel like they have lost out in any respect of their childhood or relationship. Not to say that divorcing can't be an upsetting for children, but in those cases any distress is just a symptom of bad parenting, there is no reason why 2 smart, caring parents can't amicably divorce without adversely affecting their children's lives. If anything 2 people staying in an unhealthy relationship for the "sake of the kids" will only cause more bad feeling and friction that is even more likely to spill over onto the kids. If there has been major emotional turmoil between a couple with kids, the last thing they need is to try and pretend nothing happen and contain all that anger and distress into one household.
My parents were both very considerate to the feelings of me and my siblings at the time, and they way over estimated how big a deal it was.
In my opinion, all the hype around divorce affecting kids just adds more credence to the ideal nuclear family myth, and gives more pathetic people a chance to bitch about something in their life that has no real significance.