THE BAD NEWS Every divorce is different, the circumstances are different and the people are different. The one thing that is always the same is the suffering of the children. The following statistics and websites help remind us all that their suffering is not temporary but lifelong and cripples their lives in ways we may not think of. The child of divorce is six times as likely to suffer serious illness in childhood. One out of three spends a lifetime in and out of drug dependency programs, psychiatric treatment and or confinement. They are 70% more likely to be suspended from school. When the divorce occurs between the ages of 3 and 6 they never recover academic proficiency. They are nearly five times as likely to live in poverty all their lives. They are three times as likely to be divorced themselves. "Three out of four teenage suicides occur in households where a parent has been absent." With the exception of the first link the following websites focus on research not recovery, On Science not religion. We include them to spotlight the harm suffered by the children of divorce, and to motivate people to visit the Mom's pages, the Dad's pages, and especially the rebonding pages. http://www.preventingdivorce.com/ http://www.salagram.net/seX-FX-of-Divorce.html http://www.childadvocate.net/divorce_effects_on_children.htm http://www.worldandi.com/specialreport/divorce/divorce.html http://fathersforlife.org/divorce/divmen.htm http://www.dadi.org/suicide.htm http://www.divorcereform.org/ We hope and pray the above links motivate people to visit the Mom's pages, the Dad's pages, and especially the rebonding pages.. Statistics taken from "The Costly Consequences of Divorce" Published by the National Institute of Health Research, Compiled by Dr.'s David and Susan Larsen.

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