"Just because Mommy and Daddy don't love each other anymore, doesn't mean they ever stopped loving you!" That sentence alone can't help a child heal from the trauma of splitting parents and major lifestyle changes. Most family-oriented toys depict a picture-perfect unit that, as grown ups, we know certainly isn't the norm. Designer Ben Forman's Detacho Playhouse consists of a reconfigurable single-family home that transforms into separate houses, should the doll family (with a variety of members and step-members to choose from) experience a divorce. The parent dolls' hair pieces rotate around to reveal either a happy or sad face. When they're happy they kiss on the mouth, but if they're not feeling it, the embedded magnets divert contact to a platonic kiss on the cheek.
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