8 Divorced or separated men undergo inpatient or outpatient psychiatric care at a rate 10 times that of married men. According to one study, only half of divorced mothers valued the absent father's continued contact with his children. 10 Divorce hurts fathers' relationships with their children, and may prove dangerous and even fatal physically and emotionally. Divorce Hurts Kids Children do not ask to be born into troubled families. The truth is that divorce has long-lasting psychological, social, and economic consequences for these little ones.
Children are the ultimate victims in the divorce wars.
The vast majority of children who spend time in a single-parent home will experience poverty. 11 Studies have shown that children from disrupted marriages were over 70 percent more likely to have been expelled or suspended from school and experience greater risk of injury, asthma, headaches, and speech defects than children from intact families. 12 Suicide rates for children of divorce are much higher than for children from intact families. 13 Delinquency rates are 10 to 15 percent higher in broken homes than in intact ones. Zill found the effects of divorce still evident 12 to 22 years after the breakup.