Statistics Regarding Children and Divorce

Here are some interesting statistics that I found regarding children and divorce:

1. 40% of American children are being raised without their fathers.
2. Studies in the early 1980's showed that children in repeat divorces earned lower grades and their peers rated them as less pleasant to be around.
3. Teenagers in single-parent families and in blended families are three times more likely to need psychological help within a given year.
4. Compared to children from homes disrupted by death, children from divorced homes have more psychological problems.
5. Following divorce, children are fifty percent more likely to develop health problems than two parent families.
6. Seventy percent of long-term prison inmates grew up in broken homes.
7. Children of divorced parents are roughly two times more likely to drop out of high school than their peers who benefit from living with parents who did not divorce.

* Initial Source - http://www.marriage-success-secrets.com/statistics-about-children-and-divorce.html

Jason Pistiner, Esq.
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