Children Divorce Statistics
Appalling Children Divorce Statistics
- Assume that ‘c’ number of children are born to married parents during a year. Then, half of ‘c’ would witness the divorce of their parents before they complete 18 years of age
- 40 percent of the children in the United States are growing up in the absence of their fathers
- Consider that ‘m’ number of children have witnessed their parents divorce. Amongst these ‘m’ children, 1 out of 10 would further experience 3 or more parental marriage breaksups
- If there are ‘n’ number of children in the United States, then 50 percent of ‘n’ will go through the dissolution of their parent’s marriage. Almost 25 percent of ‘n’ would experience the breakup of the parent’s 2nd marriage
Physically harming - Children Divorce Statistics
- The possibility that a child would be beaten or murdered is 10 times more in a house where a female is the head as compared to a house that has both parents
- Out of the total cases of child molestation, a majority are children of drug ring members or belong to single parent houses
- As compared with children residing in broken homes, those children who live with their biological parents are 20 to 35 percent physically healthier
- The possibility that children would develop health problems is 50 percent more after divorce as compared to families having both the parents
- The possibility that children would experience speech defects, headaches, asthma or injury is more after divorce when compared with children whose parents are married
Emotionally hurting - Divorce statistics of children
- Children of divorced parents develop more psychological problems even when compared with children from houses affected by death cases
- In a given year, teenagers in blended families and single parent families are 3 times more in need of psychological help
- During the 1980s, studies were executed and it was concluded that children who have experienced repeat divorces generally scored lesser grades. The peers of these children developed an opinion that it is less pleasant to be with them as compared to other children
Long term effects of divorce on children
- Out of the total long-term prison inmates, 70 percent are raised in broken homes
- Six years after a parental marriage breakup, the children of such parents are generally insecure, anxious, unhappy and lonely
Some other crucial statistics
- Children are benefited by residing with parents who do not divorce. Their peers, who are children of divorced parents are approximately 2 times more likely to drop out of high school
- The possibility of children to attempt suicide is twice regarding children who are related to broken homes when compared with children from non-broken houses
- The children of divorced parents and more specifically males, are usually more aggressive in behavior towards others
- There is 4 times more possibility that children who have gone through their parents divorce would report problems with friends and peers
- In case of children belonging to fatherless homes –
- 85 percent have behavioral disorders
- 90 percent are homeless and runaway children
- 63 percent commit youth suicide
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