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Show understand their situation and their feelings. Teachers who recognize signs of stress in students should holdaconferencewith the parent. Divorced parents should not hesitate to ask for a conference. because they feel wrongly that they helped cause the divorce. After divorce, a child may see less of both parents. Result: loneliness. The stress on a child can show up In the school classroom class-room in the form of absen-tmindedness, absen-tmindedness, nervousness, weariness, moodiness, withdrawal, with-drawal, declining grades, agressiveness and physical complaints such as stomach aches, backaches, sore muscles, mus-cles, rashes or tics. Seldom do parents have'a good discussion with their child about their divorce. The child may pick up some information by hearing the parents discuss the divorce di-vorce and Its causes in the course of an argument or phone conversation. Relatives or babysitters may try to explain the divorce. di-vorce. Information from these conversations by its nature often biased or exaggerated. exag-gerated. Though divorce has become be-come common, most children chil-dren feel that they are the only ones who have divorced divorc-ed parents and that other children or adults will not Schoolers. and Home t 7 Dr. Daryl J. McCarty Executive Secretary Utah Education Association Divorce can cause stress to he children of "a broken marriage," and that, stress can hurt the youngster's progress In school. The divorce rate nationally nation-ally is on the rise, climbing climb-ing from 5.2 per 1,000 to 5.3. Some of the feelings that often create stress in children chil-dren whose parents get divorced di-vorced are anger, guilt and loneliness. The children's anger arises aris-es from being caught In a situation they can't control. M any children suffer guilt |