One day, in the early weeks after starting my master’s program, I had a friend whose parents were going through a divorce. We were both in our early twenties, still children in many ways. I remember thinking it was so bizarre that she was so upset about her parents divorcing. I remember hearing her on the phone with both of them — this was before FaceTime was really a thing, so they must have been three-way calling — and she was crying while they both comforted her.

Both parents were comforting her.

That was the weirdest thing to me: having both parents consoling the child. I remember thinking it was such a frivolous thing to be upset about, and that it seemed childish for her to need comfort from her parents over........

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