A decades-long U.K. study shows divorce remains damaging to children, despite a greater social acceptance.
The National Child Development Study tracks 17,000 people born in Britain during the same week in 1958. Comparing those individuals with those born years later, the study revealed those in both generations with divorced parents were more likely to suffer from depression and do poorer in school and careers than their peers. They also were more likely to go through a divorce of their own.
Jenny Tyree, associate marriage analyst at Focus on the Family Action, said the social acceptance of divorce doesn’t change a child’s need for a mom and a dad.
“This study adds to the mountain of evidence that children do best with their biological, married parents.” she said. “Yet, we've begun a new social experiment of gay ‘marriage’ and parenting that says it's OK for a child to be motherless or fatherless.”
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