Although there are proponents on both sides of the coin with regard to whether or not children of divorced parents suffer long-term, negative effects, one recent study suggests that young women do — at least when it comes to commitment and trust in relationships with their boyfriends and husbands.
These interesting findings were divulged in a study recently published in the Journal of Marriage and Family.
Data obtained from 464 randomly selected partners by researchers at the University of California-Berkeley and the University of Texas-Austin revealed that “compared with women from intact families, women from divorced families reported more ambivalence about becoming involved — and more conflict and negativity in their relationships.”
The study also found that women from broken homes were less likely to trust their partners.
Stating that daughters of divorce may have a more realistic outlook on life, researchers nevertheless fear that the ambivalence, conflict, and lack of trust they currently experience in their relationships may lead to later difficulties. They believe this may explain why the marriages of adult children of divorce are more likely to end in divorce than marriages between partners from intact families.
(This article courtesy of Agape Press.)
