A dissertation submitted to the Faculty of Arts in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Masters of Arts (Counseling Psychology) in the Department of Psychology at the University of Zululand, South Africa, 2011. / The major objective of the study was to document the experiences and meaning attributed to the divorce of one’s parents. The results emerged from this study undoubtedly pointed out that the majority of the experiences of children of divorce are negative experiences and had negative impacts to their well being (personally, psychologically, economically and even socially). The meaning attributed to these experiences, is mostly negative attributions and there were few positive. Some of the participants have benefited from their negative and painful experiences. That was by changed their thought orientation to be more focused and being responsible individuals, whereas, it has changed other’s personality and self perception for the bad. Based on the findings of this study and evidence from consulted literature on the experiences and meaning attributed to the divorce of one’s parents entails pain, abuse, development, loss, despair, responsibility, deprivation and lot more. Most of the literature reviewed concurred with findings of this study.