Feel very sorry for these kids, and the mother, but I do think the mother has been rather unwise in the manner in which she has used the kids and the media to try to get her way.
It requires almost superhuman willpower in these instances, but parents must do all they can to ensure that children don't face the sickening scene that these kids faced last night.
Unfortunately the animosity that prevails in marriage breakups etc becomes hard, if not impossible, for many to overcome.
She would have been advised many times, that it was most likely to end this way, and she continued to try to win the argument by using the children's emotions.
