One of the major demographic and social changes of the last four decades has been the dramatic increase in the average age at which Americans first marry, from the early twenties in 1970 to the late twenties today. Delayed marriage in America has helped to bring the divorce rate down since 1980 and increased theContinue reading “Delaying marriage causes single parents”
Category Archives: How Divorce Affects Children
Divorce With Children Restructures the Relationship but Doesn't End It
A paper entitled Family Law and the Indissolubility of Parenthood explains why divorce with children seems to never end. “Many of the conflicts about family law in the Western world today derive from the breakdown of the model on which divorce reform was predicated in the late 1960s and early 1970s,” he writes. The modelContinue reading “Divorce With Children Restructures the Relationship but Doesn't End It”
Divorce With Children Restructures the Relationship but Doesn’t End It
A paper entitled Family Law and the Indissolubility of Parenthood explains why divorce with children seems to never end. “Many of the conflicts about family law in the Western world today derive from the breakdown of the model on which divorce reform was predicated in the late 1960s and early 1970s,” he writes. The modelContinue reading “Divorce With Children Restructures the Relationship but Doesn’t End It”
Is same sex marriage hard on the children?
NOPE, THE JURY IS NOT OUT THOSE who oppose gay marriage often argue that having gay parents is hard on children. This has been a hard argument to make, because there simply isn’t that much data about the effects of growing up with gay parents, and what little there is—such as the 2010 study inContinue reading “Is same sex marriage hard on the children?”
Remarriage offsets the negative impact of divorce- cohabitating does not
Divorce is horrid. But getting married- again, usually eliminates the long-term consequences of divorce. According to a white paper by the National Institute on Aging economic well-being in later life is linked to marital status— married older couples have higher incomes and greater wealth than those of unmarried individuals. A change in marital status becauseContinue reading “Remarriage offsets the negative impact of divorce- cohabitating does not”