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Single-Parents Families In response to: Children of divorced parents tend to have more problems in school. In 1971 a study on the effects of divorce was conducted by a group of psychologists on 131 children. The children were all from middle-class families, and throughout their experiences did not suffer from significant economic insecurity. Follow-ups of the children were done 5, 10, and 15 years after the divorce of their parents, thus spanning a significant portion of their lives. What the …

…this is true even when the children do not live in poverty. The most significant psychological problem for children of divorce seems to be a great difficulty in forming personal relationships, and tends to appear only later in life. And, of course, not all children from single-parent families have such problems, and there is no saying that all children from two-parent families don't have such problem. In general, children from two-parent families do much better.