A study conducted by researchers at the University of the Basque Country in Bilbao, Spain, has added weight to what Quickie Divorce have always claimed: that it is the way children are parented following a divorce, and not divorce itself, that can have long-lasting and negative effects on children of divorce.
Professor Priscila Comino gathered data on a total of 416 children aged between 4 and 18, 214 being children of divorce, whilst the remaining 202 were the children of parents who are still married. Its findings showed that, provided the children’s parents can create appropriate arrangements and maintain an affable relationship following their divorce, there was ultimately no reason why children of divorce should encounter problems that were greater than those encountered by children whose parents remain married.
It was also found, however, that children of divorce that the children of married parents generally enjoyed greater psychological wellbeing than children of divorce, though the majority of children whose parents divorce still grew up to be emotionally stable.
Divorce, the study concludes, is only a problem when parents are unable to adapt to the changes, create suitable arrangements, avoid clashing with one another and engage in collaborative co-parenting.
When parents were able to create suitable arrangements, then children of divorce displayed no more behavioural problems than children whose parents remain married.
So, provided couples can put their children’s needs before their own following a divorce, there is no reason why children of divorce should be disadvantaged.
