I don't think there's any such thing as a divorce that is painless for the child, but there are ways to make things less traumatic. The main thing is for the parents to not fight in front of the kid, because that could make the kid think that things are possibly worse than they are. Another thing that they could do would be to make sure they don't use the kid as a "messenger" between them to convey hurt feelings, and also to make sure that the child isn't in the court room to see how brutal things can be, that could leave him or her angry at both parents. One last thing that can be done is to make sure that in front of the child, they seem to still be friends to some degree. If they seem to get along, they might even get over their differences to some degree, and the child won't end up holding a grudge against one parent because it seems that they hurt the other.
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