NO MATTER HOW agreeable parents and teens are to a custody situation, there are still a great many adjustments to be made on both sides when parents divorce. Problems are not always apparent early on; sometimes it is only after the family has lived in the new arrangement for a few months that trouble spots in the new way of life become evident. The idea that divorce does not necessarily solve every problem and even creates new ones is disheartening to many teens. "I was sort of naive, I guess," says one sixteenyear- old. "I thought things would be better after they were apart; I assumed the fighting would be over, they wouldn't have anything to do with one another. But I was wrong!"

Not much to look forward to

Much of the fighting centers around visitation. One parent brings the children...