My 4 year old niece and 2 year old nephew, parents split up. They spend an alternate night with each parent ie Monday mum, Tuesday dad, Wednesday mum etc and then every Saturday night they are sent to a different family member (there are 6 of us on a continually 6 week rotation). They both are emotionally and developmentally delayed and whilst like other children their age, they suffer from separation anxiety, they seem to have it in extreme (ie they will only sleep an hour or two as they are crying and screaming on a Saturday night family stay). Neither of their parents believe that the family stay is causing any psychological issues and it is part of being a child. Some of us believe that it needs to stop and that the children's developmental delays are due to psychological issues caused by instability due to not having a stable home environment between their parents and then being shunted off to somewhat unfamiliar homes every weekend.

Does any one know the impact to children with this kind of set up or if it's just normal childhood behavior? Thanks