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Originally Posted by bizaro86
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.
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I think there is a lot of new research that shows where a couple divorces amicably, and where the children have maximum contact with both parents, children of divorce are just as happy and well-adjusted as other children.
It is essential that the legal system (courts and lawyers) work to resolve matters collaboratively as much as possible, and not through litigation. Parents that put the interests of their children first, do a great service. Joint/shared custody is becoming the norm, and should only be departed from in unusual cases.