I am a child of divorce, although in my case my parents' divorce was not contentious and custody was never in dispute. Divorce does affect you in all kinds of ways, for the rest of your life, as any child of divorce can attest. One thing that almost always happens is that one parent starts playing the “fun parent,” because both know their time with you is limited. Real parenting, the hard kind, usually goes out the window, since you're just basically visiting two houses, and