I myself have no experienced this but I have seen it. Many times children think that they did something to cause this and blame it on themselves. Other kids get nasty attitudes and start acting out in school or their behavior can become agressive or depressed. I think it depends on age and the childs personality.

How the situation is handled with the children will somewhat determine how they react. The parents have to act like adults and not try to use the children to get back at the other parent. The children must be shown love from both parents and reassured that they are not to blame. They need to be told that sometimes mommy's and daddy's may not love each other like they once did, but that the love of the child never fades- they will alwasy love the child more than anything and will always be there for them even if they aren't in the same house all the time. Yes, personality and age does make a difference, but most often it's the selfish, reckless behavior of adults that screws it up for the kids.

Divorce is never easy on children. The best thing to do is to respect each parents time with the children, communicate for the benefit of the children and do not talk bad about the other parent to the children. Two good books are The Good Divorce and to avoid problems are Divorce Poison.