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Originally Posted by MattyC
I see your point, and your point that there is not enough adult children of gay couples to get a large enough sample size. But there is definitely plenty of studies done on the effect of divorce on children and the concensus seems to be that there is no statistically significant differences in any traits. (If you want sources for this stuff it'll have to wait until I'm home).
Now I don't want to derail the thread to divorce, but if theres no evidence of change from a major event that happens (generally) in the youth of someones life, I think it would be reasonable to assume that there would be little to no differences when someone is brought up a certain way from birth. It is all they know, and thus is assumed to be normal. By the time the kid realizes theres a difference between his family and that of a traditional one, it won't matter.
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Wallerstein, Judith S. (1991). The long-term effects of divorce on children: A review. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 30(3), 349-360.
This study showed moderate to severe clinical depression in over one-third of the children of divorced parents 5 years after the divorce.
A British study indicated that children of divorced parents are 3 times more likely to become teenage parents.
Andrew J. Cherlin, Kathleen E. Kiernan, and P. Lindsay Chase-Lansdale, “Parental Divorce in Childhood and Demographic Outcomes in Young Adulthood,”
Demography, Vol. 32, (1995), pp. 299-316
I'm glad everything worked out for you, but that's not necessarily the norm. I think it also depends a lot on how amicable the divorce was and how old the child was when it occured, although I don't have time to look that up just now.
And I do apologize for derailing the thread.