Some experts are concluding that divorce is neither good nor bad. Allen Li, associate director of the Population Research Center at the RAND Corporation in Santa Monica, California, says it depends on the individual marriages and the family.
Though Li’s findings contrast with a lot of research on the effects divorce has on children. Some argue that Li is controlling so many things in his study that he is literally causing the effects of divorce to disappear.






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I agree with these findings 100%. It’s the adults who end the marriage that determine the effect of the divorce on the children.
I am also very interested in the area of kids behavior after divorce. Thanks for pointing out this research!
It’s my clinical experince that its the degree of conflict between the parents that is the real culprit in chidren’s adjustment problems.