As referenced on another site, it is stated that the chaos child scale that goes from a single mom who drinks, uses drugs and has 3 kids with different fathers all the way to an intact family where the parents are together and love each other. The first 15 years of childhood greatly affect the future of the children and I have seen it with my own eyes as well. I grew up in Italy and none of my friends at school had divorced parents, absolutely none of them in elementary school, middle school and high school. All my friends were emotionally stable, none of them used heavy drugs, had teen pregnancies and even remotely thought about committing suicide. Since I moved to the US I have seen several teens pregnant in my wife's family, some using cocaine and one 18 year old hanging himself 3 years ago because his girlfriend left him. Having divorced parents greatly affect children and adults later and I will do the best that I can to spare all this pain to my children. The lawmakers should wake up to the crisis that Reagan created when he introduced the "no fault" divorce when couples started to get divorced for no reasons. Every generation seems to get worse since then where some "crazy" people even have divorce parties while the lawyers become millionaires at the expenses of children. It's absolutely disgusting , not even animals behave that way.
Last edited by job; 08/07/1601:22 PM. Reason: To remove reference of author on another site.
