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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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Fair enough. There's always going to be studies with counter-points. I don't have time to go through those papers or to search up my own sources as I'm leaving for the weekend. If you'd like to continue the topic on divorce we can PM, I dont want to derail the thread any more.
To bring it back to topic, my point is that it is difficult to determine whether or not those traits come from upbringing or genetics. So you can't say that gay marriage has any different effect (positively or negatively) on potential children than a traditional marriage does.