This helps children understand (that) we're still a family. He's a family with me and he's a family when he's with his dad.

I think that's part of the stress for children of divorce is that they feel like they have no control over anything that's happening to them, and if you can just give them a little bit of that control back, it's not quite as stressful for them.

You both love the child and you both want to be with him on all the special things and it's just not possible. Healing takes a while and it happens at its own pace.

There were still few rules at Down House, and Charles was not very good at enforcing the ones he and Emma did make. This was well known among his children. In 1855, when Lenny was about five, Charles walked in to find his son jumping up and down and tumbling all over a new sofa.

'Oh Lenny, Lenny,' Charles said. 'You know it is against all rules.'

'Then,' Lenny said to his papa, 'I think you'd better go out of the room.'

And so Charles did.

She is the sweetest, dearest dog. This would be a good dog for children.

We just decided to donate them to children who could actually use them.