Sentences with phrase «intact homes»

Here's what they found: In 1973, adult children of divorce were 172 % more likely to get divorced than adult children from intact homes.

His entire thing is about intact homes being better and easier for all, something with which nearly no one would disagree.

When I'm consulted on what to do about custody of babies I advocate creating a post divorce environment that's as close as possible to life in a good intact home.

They also found that children from divorced households had more short love affairs, more sexual partners, and were younger during their first sexual encounter than children from intact homes.

The prevalence of delinquency in broken homes is 10 to 15 percent higher than in intact homes.

There indeed may be some observable reversion to expected role - playing in most intact homes, where male and female parents tend to fall into artificially heightened socially expected gender roles.

You conclude that Popenoe's argument indicating better child rearing outcomes from intact homes means that «The converse of this is that divorce and single - motherhood do a poor job in raising kids and he proves it in his book.»

Given the many advantages of intact homes, including financial and social, the different histories and characteristics of parents who succeed in keeping their marriage together, and the good relationship between the two parents (a factor which HAS been demonstrated to be directly related to children's self - esteem and well - being), this hypothesis is wishful thinking.

And McLanahan and her colleagues have found that 11 % of boys who come from divorced families end up spending time in prison before the age of 32, compared to 5 % of boys who come from intact homes.

It's all about intact homes.

Wallerstein: I advocate creating a post-divorce environment that is as close as possible to life in a good intact home.

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This could be one of the reasons why Paul Amato found that adult children of divorce have approximately double the odds of divorce compared to adults raised in intact homes.

Perhaps most importantly, teens that have intact homes have a better chance of avoiding the pitfalls of high - risk behaviours.

And as study after study has confirmed, parental conflict — whether in an intact home or divorced home — is damaging to children.

Detractors and critics may accuse single mothers of selfishness because they're not providing the child with a father and an intact home.

This excerpt are from the Intact home Insurance agreement, but they are not unique to Intact.

And as study after study has confirmed, parental conflict — whether in an intact home or divorced home — is damaging to children.

So the real question when it comes to divorce is, «is it better for children to grow up in an intact home with marital discord and emotional stress or in homes where their parents live separately?»

This model recognizes that, in an intact home, the children would be supported by the joint net earnings of both spouses.

In addition, children of divorce are twice as likely to grow up and create marriages that end in divorce than children who grow up in intact homes.

It is one of the phenomena that contribute to those statistics of divorced children not doing as well in high school and early adulthood as children from intact homes.

Compared to their peers from intact homes, they have fewer rights, privileges and opportunities for social relationships and activities which could enrich their lives.

Research has shown that children of divorce often experience difficulties in school, and exhibit more health, behavioral, and emotional problems than children from intact homes.

Overall, according to Wallerstein (2004), adolescents from divorced homes acted out more than adolescents from intact homes.

Because they are more cautious in entering marital relationships and also have a strong determination to avoid the possibility of divorce, children who grow up in a home broken by divorce tend to have as much success in their own marriages as those from intact homes.

For example, the likelihood of children from intact homes having behavior problems is 10 percent while it is roughly 30 percent for children from divorced homes.

Children of divorce have «more difficulties, especially in the relationship with the father: 70 percent of the children of divorced parents report having a poor relationship with their father» against 30 percent of the children from intact homes.

«The science tells us,» Wilcox explains, «that children are not only more likely to thrive but are also more likely to simply survive when they are raised in an intact home headed by their married parents, rather than in a home headed by a cohabiting couple.»