Statistics


 * One out of every two marriages today will end in divorce, many of these families include children.


 * Children many times feel guilty for the divorce, thinking it was their fault.


 * Many children feel conflicted

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 * 50% of all North-American children will witness the divorce of their parents. Almost half of them will also see the breakup of a parent's second marriage. (Furstenberg and others -Life Course-) 
 * One out of 10 children of divorce experiences three or more parental marriage breakups. (Gallagher -The Abolition of Marriage) 
 * 40% of children growing up in America today are being raised without their fathers. (Wade, Horn and Busy, -Fathers, Marriage and Welfare Reform, Hudson Institute Executive Briefing, 1997) 
 * 50% of all the children born to married parents today, will experience the divorce of their parents before they are 18 years old. (Fagan, Fitzgerald, Rector, -The Effects of Divorce On America-)