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The most important experiences people achieve in the family, so family is called the primary context of human development. The Polish family is being transformed in the same way as the family in other societies - fewer legal marriages, less children, more divorces, more single parents... The divorce is a very big problem in the modern Poland. The study involved 19 adults (14 women and 5 men), who experienced parental divorce at some point in their childhood. They evaluated the effects of the divorce from the perspective of their adult life. There was no single person, who would claim that parental divorce did not effects his or her live in a negative way. Research results show that parental divorce is a critical life event for children's world.