A sophisticated new research report published by the National Bureau of Economic Research charts new findings in how divorce is not a temporary bump in the road for children. It has long-term, deleterious effects far into adulthood. This is not a new finding overall. It has long been an established finding in leading academic investigations into the impacts of divorce on children throughout their lives.
However, this important new study does chart some important new ground. Conducted by scholars at the University of Texas at Austin, University of Maryland and the U.S. Census Bureau, these authors examined data on “over 5 million children to examine how divorce affects family arrangements and children’s long-term outcomes.” These children were born between 1988 and 1993.
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