It’s slim pickings’ looking for Scientific Studies about children of divorce. You might as well try to talk about the inner workings of the Church of Scientology. However, the U.S. Census offers some great data studies in one of their Surveys called “The SIPP Survey.” I hope that disclosing this information won’t enrage some fascist psychologists and psychiatrists whose ignorance about this topic is off the charts. I would like to add some choice words about what I think about that and I may do so later. At any rate, here is a great study. You will notice the Linguistics in the study as weird. I.E. the Big “D” word is absent.
Transitions in Parental Presence Among Children: 2017 :: Current Population Reports
by Zachary Scherer and Yerís Mayol-García
P70BR-169
November 2020
From the Introduction:
“Prior research has indicated that children who expe- rience family structure transitions are more likely
to experience behavior problems and decreased achievement.1, 2 Changes in household membership lead to changes in resources, stress levels, roles, par- enting behaviors, and relationships between parents and children, all of which impact children.3, 4 Among U.S. Census Bureau surveys, the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) is the only data source that captures these changes in children’s liv- ing arrangements at a monthly level.”
The brief first looks at the demo- graphic and socioeconomic characteristics of children based on whether they experienced at least one transition. It then considers
the most common types of transi- tions that children experienced. Finally, it presents changes in the frequency of transitions over the course of the year.”
A table shows percentages of children who had at least one transition. In 2018, 2.1 children experienced at least one parental transition. This involves a parent or step-parent coming or going in the household. I’m not sure about Boyfriends and Girlfriends. I assume that’s still fodder for old SNL skits.
At any rate, 65.5 percent of the children experienced 1 transition. 26.2 percent experienced 2 transitions. 8.3 percent experienced 3 transitions. What a happy year those children had.
There are then Demographic statistics with really weird surprises. Most of the parents have higher than a high education. A majority of the children lived at or above the poverty threshold. Most are native born and most are white. Most common age is between 6-11. This corresponds with 1st astrological cycle of Jupiter in a child’s chart (1st opposition and 1st return). That’s info that I’m sure everyone on the planet will appreciate but since children of divorce are ignored and silenced nobody will have any interest in this info anyway. I must be reading the statistics wrong because the email which posted this survey said that most are Black Boys.
Timing of the transitions happened in the Summer months in July through September. This is a year round thing but one can see that the split seems to match the school year. My parents split in March but I do remember that first Fall Semester going back to school as being particularly bad. My Mother was suicidcal, I became anorexic, my step-sister decided to return to our school despite moving to a different school district and she spent significant time at lunch staring at me from across the quad. I think she was then sent to boarding school in Switzerland. Maybe that was the next year. At some point sugar was put in some cars so household transportation became an issue.
The Summary on the study includes:
“Children experiencing a transition were more often living in poverty, indicating the inter- section of two experiences that have been identified as predic- tors of negative outcomes in
later life. The ability to study this linkage between monthly transi- tions in living arrangements and poverty status reflects the unique
strengths of the SIPP among Census Bureau data sources.”
Hope I haven’t overloaded this illegally with too many quotes. I apparently can’t read the graphs because I read different information from what is stated in the email and the summary.
Here’s the link for the article: https://www.census.gov/library/publications/2020/demo/p70br-ppchildren.html. Here’s the link for the article: https://www.census.gov/library/publications/2020/demo/p70br-ppchildren.html. Please let me know what I’m doing wrong here.
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