January 1st I moved my 2 year old daughter and most of our things into a new house. I never imagined that in about two and a half years I would be divorcing the person I was so in love with just a few years earlier. Someone I had built a home with, someone I had spent the last 7 years of my life with, had had a child and raised a stepson as if he were my own. It was one of the most difficult times of my life, but I felt a sense of relief, hope and optimism. The relationship had never been healthy, but I was too immature to see it, I had also been raised to believe that no matter what the problem is, you stay and try to figure it out. After introducing a child into this situation and having grown up a bit myself, after experiencing all the events that led to my separation, I can without a doubt say that divorce would not cause more problems than it would solve. Many additional arguments were avoided through the no-fault divorce process, and it wasn't because it was an available option that I chose to divorce. My daughter's and I's lives have improved dramatically and we both have the opportunity to live happy, healthy lives. My daughter does well in school and is a happy, well-behaved child. That said, if reforms are not made to return to “fault” divorce, it is not true that divorce has a negative impact and only shapes the children involved. Two famous and widely known psychologists Constance Ahrons, PhD and Judith Wallerstein, PhD. Judith Wallerstein conducted a 25-year study on the effects of divorce on the children involved. She was a senior lecturer at the school social worker for the Welfare University of California Berkeley from the years 1966 to...... middle of the document ...... the best possible alternatives to ending the marriage. Work Cited Ahrons, Constance PhD The Good Divorce. NY: Harper Perennial: Harper Collins Publishers, 1994. Print.Ahrons, Constance. We are still a family. [Sl]: HarperCollins, 2009. Print.Clark, Charles S. “Marriage and Divorce.” CQ Researcher 10 May 1996: 409-32. QC Researcher. Network. November 20, 2013.Jost Kenneth and Robinson, Marilyn. "Children and divorce". CQ Researcher 7 June 1991: 349-68. QC Researcher. Network. November 16, 2013.Masci, David. "Children and divorce". CQ Researcher January 19, 2001: 25-40. QC Researcher. Network. November 15, 2013Masci, David. "The Future of Marriage." CQ Researcher May 7, 2004: 397-420. QC Researcher. Network. November 16, 2013. Wardle, Lynn D. “No-Fault Divorce and the Divorce Conundrum.” Brigham Young University Law Review 1991.1 (1991): 79. Academic Search Premier. Network. November 25. 2013.