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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Correlation not causation. It could be that the type of parents that would have kids who go to jail and gave teen pregnancies are also the type of adults who tend to divorce. Of course divorce isn’t ideal but neither is marrying the wrong person or living with domestic violence or experiencing financial and health issues that can’t be resolved or being with someone that ends up with a criminal record and on and on. I agree with the prior poster - what exactly do you think is rocket science here or new / impt enough for a thread on this? [/quote]

OP here. I knew there were big financial and emotional repercussions, but no, I didn’t know about the earlier death statistics. [/quote]

This reveals your ignorance more than anything else. Parents’ divorce is an adverse childhood experience. (It’s not always more adverse than whatever else was going on in the marriage, but it’s adverse nevertheless.)

The more ACEs you have, the earlier you die.

It’s a great reason for our country to invest in preventing them, but good luck with that in the climate of shame that led you to post this.[/quote]

Do you think researchers analyzed data from the Census Bureau in order to “shame” you, or any individual, personally? Yes or no. [/quote]

I didn’t say anything about individual shame. Do I think that the Census Bureau under the Trump administration—which has embraced pro-natalist policies including limitations on divorce because it does not comport with their Christofascist aspirations—may be picking and choosing what it chooses to engage in on that basis, including studies that contribute to a burden of shame experienced by divorced people?

Yes, I do think that. Any Fed in any agency can tell you that participation in published work like this is now subject to political screening; I don’t know why you would think it isn’t.[/quote]

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