Girls Perform Better on Tests When Feuding Parents Divorce

A new study finds that the schoolwork of girls whose parents split up is better than that of girls who live with a mom and dad who don’t get along.

(iDAD) -- A clean break from a bad marriage is actually better for the couple’s school-age daughters than a troubled union, a new University of Florida study finds.
Contrary to the expectation that marriage is always good for children while divorce is bad, the study found that the schoolwork of girls whose parents split up is better than that of girls who live with a mom and dad who don’t get along, says U-F researcher Mark Hoekstra.

“There is no question, as I and other researchers find, that boys and girls from two-parent intact families perform better academically than boys and girls whose parents divorced,” Hoekstra says. “But I was surprised to learn that girls whose parents divorced do better in school than girls from similarly troubled families whose parents went to the brink of divorce but remained married.”

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