DIVORCE - SOME FACTS

  • Divorce rates for second marriages tend to be higher than that of first marriages but it doesn't mean that ALL people that remarry will divorce.
  • Living together prior marriage will not minimize the risk of eventual divorce
  • Divorce DOES have long lasting effects on children!!!!
  • Do not have children just to try and safe your marriage.
  • Children are NOT better off in step-families than in single parent families.
  • Children whose parents are divorced are more likely to to divorce!!


  References:

  Bezuidenhout, F.J. (Ed.)(2010). A Reader on Selected Social Issues (4th ed.). Pretoria:
Van Schaik

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