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Divorce: Just the Facts
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Divorce: Just the Facts
Compiled By Mike Nappa
"A father to the fatherless, a defender of widows, is God in his holy dwelling. God sets the lonely in families..."
-Psalm 68:5-6a
"Half of all children
From 1970 to 1994, the number of divorced adults quadrupled, making "divorced persons" the fastest-growing marital status category in the United States.
Between 1950 and 1980, the number of children involved in divorces and annulments rose 175 percent.
Each year since 1972, one million children have experienced the divorce of their parents.
From 1970 to 1996, the number of children living in single-parent families more than doubled, from 12 percent (roughly one in eight children) to 28 percent (less than one in four).
Among the millions of children who have seen their parents divorce, one of every 10 will also live through three or more parental marriage breakups.
Studies in the early 1980s showed that children in repeat divorces earned lower grades and their peers rated them as less pleasant to be around.
Between 1970 to 1975, the divorce rate rocketed upward by 40 percent.
Sixty percent of black women who married in the 1960s and early 1970s had already experienced a divorce by 1992.
Forty percent of children growing up in America today are being raised without their fathers.
The number of single fathers in America has tripled since 1980.
Teenagers in single-parent families and in blended families (stepfamilies) are three times more likely to need psychological help within a given year.
"Compared to children from homes disrupted by death, children from divorced homes have more psychological problems."
Children living with both biological parents are 20- to 35-percent more physically healthy than children from broken homes.
"Most victims of child molestation come from single-parent households or are the children of drug ring members."
"A child living in a female-headed home is 10 times more likely to be beaten or murdered."
A study of children six years after a parental marriage breakup revealed that-even after all that time-these children tended to be "lonely, unhappy, anxious, and insecure."
Children of divorce are four times more likely to report problems with peers and friends than are children whose parents have kept their marriages intact.
Children of divorce, particularly boys, tend to be more aggressive toward others than those children whose parents did not divorce.
A baby born to a college-educated single mother is more likely to die than is a baby born to a married high school dropout.
Children of divorce are at a greater risk to experience injury, asthma, headaches, and speech defects than children whose parents have remained married.
People who come from broken homes are almost twice as likely to attempt suicide than those who do not come from broken homes.
Children of divorce are about two to three times more likely to live grow up with a parent who struggles with alcoholism than children from an intact marriage.
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.
Girls from a broken family are twice as likely to become teen mothers than girls living with biological parents who have not divorced.
Seventy percent of long-term prison inmates grew up in broken homes.
Coming next week in Notes from Nappaland: "A Father Who is There (Part 1)"-Another sneak preview from the as-yet unpublished book, Father to the Fatherless by Mike Nappa.
"A Walk Down Memory Lane" excerpted from Legacy of Joy ) 1998 Nappaland Communications Inc, and Norm Wakefield.. Published by Promise Press, an imprint of Barbour Publishing, Inc., Uhrichsville, OH. Reprinted with permission.
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