Divorce and Toasted Children!

The National Institute of Demographic Studies (INED) confirmed in its report published in May 2002 that the separation or divorce of parents is highly prejudicial, particularly in the field of education and that this is way beyond divorce law. The figures are frightening!

Family life is put to the test. The number of divorces and separations has continued to grow over the last few decades. However, these changes do not save the children involved in these marriages. Quite the contrary, the implications are much greater, but many people refuse to believe it. INED demonstrated this using a series of findings and figures. The percentages suggest that we think about the situation.

- First of all, the majority of parental separation situations reduce the
  average duration of studies of children aged 6 months to over a year.
- In privileged backgrounds in which the parents are college graduates or
  executives, a divorce doubles the failure rate in the Baccalaureate exam 
  (7% failure against 15% in case of divorce).
- The number of second cycle university graduates decreased from 45% to
  25% with the families in which a divorce has occurred.
- One in two children leaves school in case their mothers have no
  education as compared to 37% in a united family. Also, the number of
  university graduates dropped to three per cent.
- On the employee side, 22% of children have no degree although their mothers have graduated college,
  while there are only 11% such children in non-separated families and 30% are graduates, while 35% are
  not.

These academic difficulties and all the rest of the situations are due to rupture or parental home environment prior to separation or divorce. One thing is true and that it that not only the adults are involved in a rupture. Divorce and children are highly connected.