Christian Family Services Ministry

1-19-2017 – A Word to the Wise: Evidence from longitudinal research indicates that, on the average, children of divorced parents do worse than children from intact families, even prior to their parents’ divorce. For example, one widely cited study found that half of the difference in achievement test scores between boys from intact and non-intact families was due to pre-divorce differences. 26 However, follow-up studies of these same children have since shown that divorce had long-term negative consequences, in addition to the effects of any pre-divorce differences in the child’s well being.