“One out of every two recent marriages in the United States could end in divorce, and children are involved more than half of the time. Fortyeight of the fifty states now have no fault divorce laws and in recent years there have been approximately 1 million divorces in America. The divorce rate in the united states has doubled since 1960.” Kids from nonintact families, compared to those children from intact families, are more likely to engage in premarital sex, use alcohol, tobacco, and illicit drugs…
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