Children of Divorce Trivia Based on British Study
Here’s a little divorce trivia from a recent British study about children and divorce, published on The Independent:
- In 2002, 149,000 children under 16 were affected by divorce, which was nearly twice as many as in 1971.
- By the age of 16, almost one in four children born in 1979 had experienced their parents’ divorce.
- Despite the frequency of divorce, only 1 in 20 children believe that it was properly explained to them.
- Grandparents and school friends emerged as the greatest sources of comfort for the children of divorced parents.
- One-fourth believed that no one had talked to them at all about the reasons for their parents’ separation.
- More than half of the children who spent time in two different households took a positive view of such an arrangement.
Unfortunately, what clearly stands out from the results is the lack of communication between parents and their children about the drastic changes going on in the child’s life due to the divorce. That’s too bad.
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[…] But divorce is not something you can just sweep under the carpet and hope will go away. According to a recent British survey, only 1 in 20 children of divorce believed that it was properly explained to them, while one-fourth of the children feel that no one had talked to them at all about the reasons for their parents’ separation. […]