Does Divorce Hurt Kids? By Corliss Richards
-75% to 80% of children of divorce are functioning well, with little long-term damage
-Within two years of their parents' divorce, the vast majority of children are beginning to function reasonably well again.
-70% of divorced parents are living happier lives than they did before divorce.
-25% of children from divorced families have serious social, emotional or psychological problems, as opposed to 10% of kids from intact families.
Families Changing Trends III edition. By Maureen Baker
-Divorce brings about the separation of a child and a parent, usually the father Divorce commonly reduces the child's family income and sometimes erodes family assets.
-Divorce can even trigger violence against the children(such as parental kidnapping)
What Children learn from divorce. By Paul Amato
-People who experience parental divorce while growing up face an elevated risk, in adulthood, of seeing their own marriages end in divorce.
-Children whose parents divorce, compared with children whose parents remain married, have fewer -opportunities to learn positive social skills that facilitate close relationships and strengthen later marital stability.
-Parental discord (in the absence of parental divorce) appeared to elevate children's thoughts of divorce, but children with discordant parents did not necessarily translate these thoughts into behavior.
Following up on Children. By Mimi Avins
-Kids have always faced hard times and they still grow up and do well. We don't want to make it sound like divorce is the end of the world for children.
Families In Canadian Society. By Maureen Baker and Janet Dryden
-Many researchers agree that the way children adjust to divorce is influenced by how their parents deal with it.
-studies show that children from divorced families tend to have lower educational and socio-economic attainment.
-Children of divorced parents tend to hav...