Think about the children

Balancing act: Children can find themselves torn between divorced parents with different parenting styles.

FOR many of the liberal Hollywood types, Nov 8, was a dark day. But for Brad Pitt, it might have been one of the brightest days he has had in a while – well, since his estranged wife Angelina Jolie filed for divorce in September after two years of marriage and some 10 years of being together.

The Los Angeles County Department of Child and Family Services cleared the acclaimed actor of wrongdoing after the agency’s investigation into an alleged incident of physical and verbal abuse involving Pitt and his oldest child Maddox, 15.