Again, let me repeat, I feel strongly that divorce without question, does harm the child. Whether or not it harms the child to the degree that they will become depressed, commit a crime, or drop out of school depends on both the parent and the child. Losing a parent is a difficult adjustment and everyone deals with grief in different ways so it is impossible to say exactly how divorce affects a child. But the evidence does seem to pile up that most children do respond to divorce in a negative way. Fathers, Marriage, and Welfare Reforms.
Study finds teen pregnancy and crime levels higher among kids from fatherless homes.
University of California. Failure of No-fault divorce. Journal of the American Academy of Children and Adolescent Psychiatry , p.352. Long term effects of parental divorce on parent child relationships, adjustment, and achievement in young adulthood.