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In which Angie, age fourteen, asks to go to a party with her mother and is disappointed by the angry response from her father.

In many divorces, the communication between parents becomes strained and infrequent. In this diary a daughter describes the anguish she feels when once again she gets caught between her parents. While a parent may believe that the child's attempts to get more financial support or to change the schedule may be successful when other approaches have failed, the commentary delineates the pressures and ambivalence children must bear when asked to be a messenger. We offer alternatives to using children as pawns in parental struggles.