I am of two minds on this one: on the one hand, if the word of a 7 year-old is enough to break up a marriage, there were probably already issues present.
On the other hand, that daughter is going to have to live with the knowledge that she caused her parents' divorce. I can't help but wonder what this will do to her emotionally, long term.
This is deeply concerning. Why would a child want to split her parents up? My guess is she likes watching others in pain. Having experienced something similar with a so-called “friend” having me arrested for who knows what reason, I would keep a very close eye on this child. She may start hurting animals and showing other psychopathic or sociopathic tendencies. Those poor parents…My heart goes out to them for having this demon daughter.
Yeah, there is no telling where this is going, as far as the kid is concerned. It could be a sign of major psychological problems, or it could be as simple as she had classmates that saw their parents do the adultry thing, and realized that she could retaliate for getting grounded by hurting them with making this thing up, not really "getting" what she was doing.
The more I think about this one, the more I wonder if the husband didn't already want out of the marriage, and this gives him a chance to do so while proclaiming his own innocence.
Maybe. But I can also see that if my wife wouldn't believe me over a seven-year-old, plus there wouldn't be any real evidence (because it never really happened), it would be a "deal breaker."
On the other hand, that daughter is going to have to live with the knowledge that she caused her parents' divorce. I can't help but wonder what this will do to her emotionally, long term.