When the news about the split of Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt erupted on September 20 (Philippine time), most social-media statuses, tweets, and blog posts claimed that “true love is dead.”
READ: Angelina Jolie files divorce from Brad Pitt
But no one would be taking this powerhouse Hollywood divorce drama harder than their six children Maddox, 15, Pax, 13, Zahara, 11, Shiloh, 10, and twins Vivienne and Knox, 8.
A major trigger point for the Academy Award-winning actress to file for a divorce was Brad’s alleged parenting method.
Add to this, she had become "fed up" with Brad’s 'substance and alcohol abuse,' not to mention, "anger issue."
The day after TMZ broke the news, a source told People that Brad wants joint custody.
In Angelina's divorce documents, however, she asked for physical custody of the kids and visitation rights for Brad.
Here are a few things you should know about their six kids.
1. A multilingual bunch
In an interview with BBC Radio 4’s Woman Hour, Angelina gave a glimpse of what it is like to live in her household.
At that time, all six children were learning different languages.
The actress-director shared, "I asked them what languages they wanted to learn and Shi [Shiloh] is learning Khmai, which is a Cambodian language.
"Pax is focusing on Vietnamese.
"Mad [Maddox] has taken to German and Russian.
"Z [Zahara] is speaking French.
"Vivienne really wanted to learn Arabic, and Knox is learning sign language.”
2. Aspiring artists?
Some of the kids had done small acting parts in one of their parents’ films.
Shiloh, for example, appeared on The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, while Vivienne was the little Aurora in Maleficent.
Pax, Zahara, Shiloh, and Knox's voices were used in Kung Fu Panda 3, where Angelina dubbed Master Tigress.
But none of the kids expressed interest in acting.
In the same interview in Woman Hour, Angelina spoke a bit about her children's other potential careers in mind.
Maddox has started learning the process of filmmaking, specifically, editing.
He became a personal assistant on the set of By the Sea, a 2015 romantic film written and directed by his mother and starred his parents.
He had worked side by side with his mother on the Netflix film First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers, which will be released during the latter part of 2016.
This one's a personal project for the two since Angelina adopted the seven-month-old Maddox in Cambodia back in 2002.
Pax had shown interest in music.
3. Globetrotters
Aside from the fact that their parents are in-demand Hollywood celebrities, they are also active philanthropists.
Angelina’s extensive work as a special envoy to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees has opened her children’s minds to different world cultures.
4. "Homeschooled"
In a cover feature on Vogue’s November 2015, it was revealed that the Jolie-Pitt kids are “homeschooled by teachers from different backgrounds and religions, speaking different languages.”
Angelina said, “We travel often to Asia, Africa, Europe, where they were born.
“The boys know they’re from Southeast Asia, and they have their food and their music and their friends, and they have a pride particular to them.
"But I want them to be just as interested in the history of their sisters’ countries and Mommy’s country so we don’t start dividing.”
Pax was born in Vietnam and was adopted by Brad and Angelina in 2007.
Zahara was born in Ethiopia and was adopted by Angelina in 2005. That same year, Brad petitioned to adopt Maddox and Zahara.
5. Budding humanitarians
In a trip to Lebanon, Shiloh joined Angelina, who recalled, “When she was sitting on the floor with her UN cap writing her notes as she was talking to someone, I was flashing on myself fifteen years ago and thinking, I know that moment.”
Her eldest daughter Zahara has been active in humanitarian work as well.
According to a report by The Daily Mail, she and Shiloh sponsored a family while in Cambodia earlier this year after being approached by 16-year-old Leida Shoun.
The Jolie-Pitt girls treated Leida and her12 brothers and sisters to a shopping spree and a trip to the arcades.
They bought them two brand-new bikes.
In her interview in Woman Hour, the proud mother of six said, "I suppose that just means you don’t know who your children are until they show you who they are and they are just becoming whoever they want to be.”