Sentences with phrase «child 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).

Similarly, the National Child Development Study in the UK, which has followed up a large general population sample of children born in 1958, found that children from single - parent families were at greater risk for psychological problems than a matched group of children from intact families not only in childhood (Ferri, 1976) but also in early adulthood (Chase - Lansdale et al., 1995) and middle age (Elliot and Vaitilingam, 2008).

Children from dissolved families generally have more internalizing and externalizing problems, lower academic achievements and poorer social adjustment, compared with children from intact families (Frisco et al. [2007]; Størksen et al. [2006]; Sun and Li [2002]-RRB-, and the negative association between parental divorce and adjustment persist into adulthood (Amato and Sobolewski [2001]; Størksen et al. [2007]-RRB-.

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.

Marriages of the children of divorce actually have a much higher rate of divorce than the marriages of children from intact families.

Among the adult children from intact families that never marry, one - third are women.

Kids living in single - parent homes or in step - families report lower educational expectations on the part of their parents, less parental monitoring of school work, and less overall social supervision than children from intact families.

In their book Growing Up with a Single Parent: What Hurts, What Helps, sociologists Sara McLanahan and Gary Sandefur found that 31 % of adolescents with divorced parents dropped out of high school, compared to 13 % of children from intact families.

For example, a fairly recent U.S. longitudinal study tracking over 6,400 boys for over 20 years found that children who grew up without their biological father in the home were roughly three times more likely to commit a crime that led to incarceration than were children from intact families.

Others have found that children of divorced parents are up to six times more likely to be delinquent than are children from intact families.

Children of divorce suffer psychologically and frequently have lower academic achievement than children from intact families.

The grown children of divorced parents died almost five years earlier, on average, than children from intact families.

A child of a divorced family is two times more likely to drop out of high school than a child from an intact family.

What the research has consistently shown is that «children from separated families typically have from one - and - a-half times to double the risk of an adverse outcome compared to children 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.

«Marriages of the children of divorce actually have a much higher rate of divorce than children from intact families.

A University of Toronto study has found that the offspring of divorced parents are more likely to smoke than children from intact families.

In their book Growing Up with a Single Parent: What Hurts, What Helps, sociologists Sara McLanahan and Gary Sandefur found that 31 % of adolescents with divorced parents dropped out of high school, compared to 13 % of children from intact families.

[1] Children who witness their parents» high - conflict divorces suffer from preventable mental and emotional health problems at significantly higher rates than children from intact families or even divorced families where the parents exhibit low or no conflict.

First, those normally at lower risk (e.g., children from intact families) are generally living in more protective environments.