Howard explained that’s why “you want to get it right, which means taking some time to plan out what you want to say, and how you want to say it.” “It’s one of those moments kids will probably always remember,” said Howard, a psychologist at the institute. Indeed, it’s fairly easy to find articles that urge parents to put “on a united front” to “calmly share news of divorce.”įor example, psychologist Jamie Howard said in an article by the Child Mind Institute, an independent nonprofit with offices in San Mateo and New York City, that learning about divorce is “a flashbulb memory” for children.
When it comes to breaking the divorce news to the children, Baumgartner said she had found research online that bolstered the idea that she and Costner should try to put aside their differences and talk to the children together. “Instead, he insisted that he had the right to tell them that we were getting divorced ‘first’ and tell them privately ‘without me present.'” He “disregarded my proposal to do what I felt was right based on research and my relationship with the children,” Baumgartner said, according to People. She said she found “several articles about the importance of talking to the children as a united front” and believed that she and her husband of 18 years would do it together.īut Costner had other ideas. While concerned that the children would hear about the pending divorce from an outside source, Baumgartner said she researched the best way to break the news, People reported. It was important for me that we tell the children in person and together,” Baumgartner said in the documents. “The children’s welfare has always been my highest priority, and I was concerned they would find out about the divorce before Kevin and I could tell them. He had apparently been in Las Vegas working, and Baumgartner said she wanted to wait until he returned to their home in Santa Barbara. In a court filing obtained by People, Baumgartner, 49, said Costner, 68, told their kids Grace, 13, Hayes, 14, and Cayden, 16, about their divorce during a Zoom call that lasted about 10 minutes. Parenting experts may debate whether Kevin Costner’s estranged wife Christine Baumgartner really needs $250,000 a month in child support to keep their three teenagers “in their accustomed lifestyle.”īut judging from parenting advice that numerous experts make available online, they probably would agree that Baumgartner has a point in saying that the “Yellowstone” star didn’t act in their children’s best interest when he took it upon himself to break the news on his own that he and their mother were divorcing in a brief Zoom call from his Las Vegas hotel.
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