Sentences with phrase «adult children from intact families»

Among adult children from intact families, 80 % marry, and 9 % of them divorce (in other words, 73 % of children of intact families are happily married).

Not exact matches

Determined to uncover the truth, Elizabeth Marquardt herself a child of divorce conducted, with Professor Norval Glenn, a pioneering national study of children of divorce, surveying 1,500 young adults from both divorced and intact families between 2001 and 2003.

While she did find that 25 % of children from divorce do have serious social, emotional, or psychological problems (in contrast to only 10 % of children from intact families), the great majority (75 % to 80 %) of children of divorce shows very little long - term damage and, as adults, is functioning well.

Compared with similar children from intact families, children raised in single - parent homes are more likely to become involved in crime, to have emotional and behavioral problems, to fail in school, to abuse drugs, and to end up on welfare as adults.