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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Egm80][quote]
    Egm80 wrote:If you are interested in data and not just anecdotes, there is a book on this called "The Unexpected Legacy of Divorce" that followed children of divorce (and the divorcees) after 25 years. It is worth a read.

What does it say[/quote]

Here is the abstract from a psychology website: 
Abstract
This follow-up study of 131 children, who were 3-18 years old when their parents divorced in the early 1970s, marks the culmination of 25 years of research. The use of extensive clinical interviews allowed for exploration in great depth of their thoughts, feelings, and behaviors as they negotiated childhood, adolescence, young adulthood, and adulthood. At the 25-year follow-up, a comparison group of their peers from the same community was added. Described in rich clinical detail, the findings highlight the unexpected gulf between growing up in intact versus divorced families, and the difficulties children of divorce encounter in achieving love, sexual intimacy, and commitment to marriage and parenthood. These findings have significant implications for new clinical and educational interventions. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2012 APA, all rights reserved) [/quote]

So these are divorces that occurred in the 1970s... When typically one person (usually mom) got custody and the other was maybe relegated to weekends if anything,  women had fewer job opportunities, society took a very suspicious view of anything outside the nuclear model, and before it was common for people to successfully co-parent once they were no longer married...

Yeah, I'm a little dubious.[/quote]

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