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 …showed first 75 words of 520 total…

…showed last 75 words of 520 total…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.