Maybe I'll share this one w/ my W who likes to tell me how bF got divorced but she turned out OK... grrrr..
Children of divorce in the 1990s: An update of the Amato and Keith (1991) meta-analysis.
Amato, Paul R.
Journal of Family Psychology. Vol 15(3), Sep 2001, 355-370.
Abstract: The present study updates the P. R. Amato and B. Keith (1991) meta-analysis of children and divorce with a new analysis of 67 studies published in the 1990s. Compared with children with continuously married parents, children with divorced parents continued to score significantly lower on measures of academic achievement, conduct, psychological adjustment, self-concept, and social relations. After controlling for study characteristics. curvilinear trends with respect to decade of publication were present for academic achievement, psychological well-being, self-concept, and social relations. For these outcomes, the gap between children with divorced and married parents decreased during the 1980s and increased again during the 1990s. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2008 APA, all rights reserved)
Total sample size of the original meta-analysis was 19,000. Anecdotal evidence be damned!
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