Effect of Divorce on Kids

Friday, May 29th, 2009

Now, a new research says that the effect of divorce on education and emotional impact on children is getting worse. Two Canadian Universities (University of Manitoba and University of Alberta) conducted a study to warn parents and consider the deadly consequences of their divorce on the children.

The study says that school dropout rates are definitely higher among children of divorced parents compared to kids with parents who are still together. The consequences are lethal on children of parents who went through two or more divorces. Compared to stable families, there’s a 50% chance that these children will completely drop off from school.

The study’s co-author and university divorce expert Lisa Strohschein said, “The number of changes experienced by the children and how they grow as young adults can be seen in this long-run picture. As part of the study, researchers looked at data on 9,400 children adopted or born on 1984 in two-parent families.

Then, these children were tracked until 2004 (when they’re 20 years old) to find out what happened in their life. The researchers found that out of 9,400 children, only 1,325 children saw one divorce, 285 saw two divorces, and 52 had three divorces.

Detailed results of the study also stated that 78.4% of children without divorced parents completed high school while only 60% of children with divorced parents did.

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