How Americans became convinced divorce is bad for kids’ mental health.
There’s a history behind our skewed understanding of divorce’s long-term impact on children.| Slate Magazine
There’s a history behind our skewed understanding of divorce’s long-term impact on children.| Slate Magazine
A serious talk, divorced woman to divorced woman, about how ending things can be just the beginning.| Slate Magazine
Pennsylvania State University sociologist Paul Amato has had a vital impact on my own research. I spent the first decade of my career studying the divorce cycle, the tendency for divorce to run in families. This work culminated in my 2005 book, Understanding the Divorce Cycle: The Children of Divorce in Their Own Marriages. When I began my research, Paul was already an established expert on the consequences of growing up with divorced parents. He started writing about the intergenerational tr...| Institute for Family Studies
As of 2022, 15% of U.S. teens reported a major depressive episode1(up from 8% in 2007).2 The suicide rate has increased by 38% in the last 20 years, an all-time high.3 The vast majority of Americans agree that we are facing a mental health crisis. It’s worth considering, how did we get here? What is driving the huge increase in mental health problems facing our nation?| Institute for Family Studies
Among journalists who write about education, the stock explanation for student underachievement and school discipline problems is poverty. Yet there are examples in every school system of students from impoverished family circumstances who do well academically, as well as instances of students from affluent families who get D’s and F’s or wreak havoc in class. When poverty is overemphasized as a cause of instructional ills, other aspects of family life—such as conflict between parents o...| Institute for Family Studies
A new IFS research brief highlights new evidence that family factors are as important as ever to student success.| Institute for Family Studies
Pro-family initiatives should include building up societal connective tissue to reduce risk of divorce| ptbwrites.substack.com
