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Interesting: "Children of divorced parents are on average unhappier, more anxious, and more likely to be depressed. They’re also less likely to graduate from h
by aminozuur 5y ago
Interesting:
"Children of divorced parents are on average unhappier, more anxious, and more likely to be depressed. They’re also less likely to graduate from high school and college, typically make less money, and are more likely to ultimately get divorced themselves. But: The same is true of children whose parents stayed in a high-conflict marriage. Relationships that breed severe conflict can be as hard on children as breakups. Chaos is the culprit, not legal status."
- lurquer 5y agoThe quote is nonsense. The term “high-conflict marriage” is subjective. If one wanted to make the stats for the two sets of kids equivalent, it’s trivial to do so by tweaking the definition of “high-conflict.” It’s also meaningless without some data regarding the number of “high-conflict marriages.” To illustrate the absurdity, assume there is exactly 1 such marriage in the US; it would be silly to say, “the millions of kids of divorce are no better or worse than Mr. and Mrs. Jones two children!” The author’s mention of this ‘statistical’ argument, in light of its vapidity, says more about the author than the topic.
- bko 5y agoI'll also add that poverty rate for female-householder families (usually divorce or no marriage) is more than more than twice as high as the national average. Divorce is grueling. > The official poverty rate declined 0.5 percentage points from 12.3% to 11.8% in 2018, the U.S. Census Bureau reported today... Poverty rates for all people in all female-householder families dropped by 1.7 percentage points, to 26.8%, the lowest rate for this group on record. https://www.census.gov/library/stories/2019/09/poverty-rate-for-people-in-female-householder-families-lowest-on-record.html https://www.census.gov/library/stories/2019/09/poverty-rate-...
- laurencerowe 5y agoWhy dismiss it as nonsense? As a child of divorced parents it seems quite obvious - I felt far happier after my parents' stopped living together. The study supporting the statement is linked and is based on longitudinal survey data. http://grammar.ucsd.edu/courses/hdp1/Readings/Amato-Sobolewski-2001.pdf http://grammar.ucsd.edu/courses/hdp1/Readings/Amato-Sobolews...