The Effects on Academics of Children Who Come from Divorced Families

Past research has confirmed that divorce can affect a child's academic progress and test results (Kunz, 1992). The question is: What kind of effect and how significant are the results of the studies done? Research suggests that the odds of a divorce occurring in a household before the children become grown rest at about 50% (Ahilburg and DeVita, 1992), with divorce rates beginning to soar in 1963 (Jeynes, 1999). A 60 year literature review of 347 experimental studies confirmed that many studies have concluded that divorce has negative consequences for children's academic achievement (Kunz, 1992).