According to the analyzers, four parents and eight grandparents tend to compete for children's affections, so buy toys. L.M. Boyd, Spokesman Review , March 15, 1993. A five year study of children of divorced parents in California questions that children are better off when their parents divorce than when they stay in an unhappy marriage. The divorced family is less adaptive economically, socially, and psychologically to the raising of children than the two-parent family. Psychology Today , in Homemade , July, 1985.
People have no idea how much anguish and stress is caused by divorce.
Dr. E. Mavis Hetherington in Homemade , October, 1989. Approximately 1,000,000 children each year are affected by divorce. If current trends continue, stepfamilies could outnumber traditional families by the year 2000. Dr. Nazli Baydar, in Homemade , October, 1989. Chicago Tribune , quoted in His , Nov, 1980.