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The Damage Done By A Broken Home

Written by Alexia Duncan on . Posted in Opinion

As a young child, seeing your parents split up never really hits you until you get older and you realize all the damage it has done to you, but as time goes along you learn to accept that you can’t fix a broken home.

Photo by Ben Randolph — Graphic illustration by Austin Worrell

The effects of growing up in a divorced household are eternal. Despite the scars of witnessing her parents’ divorce at 6 years old, junior Alexia Duncan has learned to move forward in accepting that God is ultimately in control, and He is with us through every battle.

Searching for Empathy in a Child

Written by Trevor Chaney on . Posted in Opinion

A child wants to please their parents until they become a teenager, then the parents try to please their child, all because of the fear that one day they may leave.

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Trevor Chaney, at 4 years old, sits in the backseat as he gets dropped off at his grandparents’ house. His early life was a series of dropoffs, mainly between parents, but now he has found solid and healthy footing.

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