Study Reaffirms Children from Stable, Married Families Have Greater Chance of Academic Success
August 18, 2022
A study published Tuesday at the Institute for Family Studies (IFS) has reaffirmed what past research has concluded: that children who come from stable families with married parents have a greater chance of academic success than those from non-intact, single-parent families.
IFS authors Nicholas Zill and W. Bradford Wilcox found students from non-intact families showed three times the risk of suspensions, two times the risk of being held back a grade, and two times the risk of misbehaving in school, compared to students from married, biological families.
