'Sesame Street' tackles the issue of divorce for the first time in show's history (Video)

Sesame Street has on the air for more than 40 years but they’ve avoided a very touchy subject for all of those years until now.

The long-running children’s show has now decided to tackle the issue of divorce, a topic many kids are now dealing with. However, it won’t be aired on television, rather the show will offer it online to parents who want to use it as a tool for their kids to cope with the major life change.

Sesame Workshop has launched "Little Children, Big Challenges: Divorce,” which helps children between the ages of 2 and 8 to cope with divorce, The Huffington Post reports.

Abby Cadabby sits with Elmo and Rosita in one scene, where Abby shows the others drawings she made of her two houses – one with her mom and one with her dad. Elmo asks why they don’t all live in one house, and she says because they got a divorce.

Abby explains her parents split up because they had “some grown-up problems, problems they couldn't fix... but they both said they still love [her] very much."

The online initiative also provides a children's book, mobile app, guidebook for parents, and digital tip sheets and webinars.

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