I grew up thinking my siblings and I were not seriously
affected by it.  Only in relatively recent years have I
seen how wrong I was.

My older brother and younger brother both have led
thoroughly unproductive and unhappy lives.  Neither has
had any career success at all.  My younger brother
bounces from one job to another, all of them ending in
a firing.  He hardly has a pot to piss in.  My older
brother hasn't worked in at least 15 years.  Younger
has been married and divorced twice; older has been
married, unhappily, for over 25 years (lucky for him).
  My sister has had ups and downs, but has been doing
okay for the last 10 years; married and divorced, once.
  I think she's done relatively better than my brothers
in part because she was too young (4) to have any idea
what was going on at the time.

I have had far, far better career success than any of
them, but not getting married until late 40s tells you
- and me - something.

Divorce is terrible.  It's far too easy.  If there are
kids, divorce should be enormously difficult to obtain.
  Unless there is hard evidence that one parent is a
menace to the health and safety of the kids, the
parents should stay together for the kids' sake.

BTW, your subject line is wrong.  I have never felt
that the world rejected me.  I think that's the biggest
single difference between me and my two brothers,
particularly the younger.  He has a definite attitude
that the world owed him and didn't pay.