The facts about divorce

The facts about divorce and its effects are among the many reasons why society needs to be awakened from its complacent attitude towards divorce.

The statistical facts that follow are based mainly on data gathered in the United States of America, but they reflect the general trend in modern societies.

As they represent only general trends, it should be noted that these statistics are of little use for judging individual divorce cases.

Divorce Rates

• Half of all children born to married parents this year will experience the divorce of their parents before they reach their 18th birthday.
• In 1935, there were 16 divorces for each 100 marriages. By 1998, the number had risen to 51 divorces per 100 marriages indicating that one out of every two marriages end in divorce.

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Divorce and Crime

• Data from Wisconsin shows that juvenile incarceration rates for children of divorced parents are 12 times higher than for children in two parent families.
• The divorce of parents before a child reaches 10 is a major predictor of adolescent delinquency and adult criminality.

Divorce and abuse

• The rate of sexual abuse of girls by their stepfathers is at least six or seven times higher and may be as much as 40 times greater, than sexual abuse of daughters by their biological fathers who remain in intact families.
• Children two years of age and younger are 70 to 100 times more likely to be killed at the hands of their step parents than by their biological parents.
• Neglect of children, which can be psychologically more damaging than physical abuse, is twice as high among separated and divorced parents.

Divorce and addiction

• Comparing all family structures, drug use in children is lowest in the intact married family.

Divorce and educational achievement

• Children from divorced homes perform more poorly in reading, spelling, and math and repeat a grade more frequently than children from intact two-parent families.
• High school drop-out rates are much higher among children of divorced parents than among children of always-married parents.
• The college attendance rate is about 60 percent lower among children of divorced parents compared with children of intact families.

Divorce and economic welfare

• The household income of a child’s family drops on average between 28 percent to 42 percent following divorce. This is a greater effect than that of the Great Depression on the American economy.
• Almost 50 percent of households with children undergoing divorce move into poverty following the divorce.

(Taken from Patrick F. Fagan and Robert Rector, Backgrounder, The Heritage Foundation, June 5, 2000)