Sentences with phrase «as children from intact families»

Research from E. Mavis Hetherington and John Kelly in For Better or Worse: Divorce Reconsidered suggests that nearly 80 % of all children of divorced parents end up as happy and as well adjusted as children from intact families, so if the divorce and subsequent co-parenting go well, the kids may well be fine.

Not exact matches

Spouses who are both children of divorced parents are three times more likely to divorce as couples who both hail from intact families.

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.

A major Swedish study published in The Lancet in 2003 found that Swedish children raised in non-intact households were twice as likely as children raised in intact families to suffer from psychological disorders, suicide attempts, substance abuse, and other disorders.

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.

Parents are struggling to keep their families and relationships intact as well as protect their children from the psychological harm that is more likely to result from high conflict divorce.

If parents can manage their relationship in a cordial and business - like manner, children do as well as those from intact families.

Although many children of divorce move on in the visible world as competently as do those from intact families, their psyches are nonethless measurably changed by divorce's long reach.