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According to 12-years Emery’s divorce mediation study, the reasons of divorcing are high conflict, random assignment. For the example, 28% of nonresident parents who mediated saw their children weekly 12 years later compared to 9% who litigated and 11% in the national averages. Changes in the telephone contact are even dramatic: 52% of nonresident parents who mediated talk with their children after 12 years later. This source is strong. Because, the source has a high reputation. It is credible, because the source has some statistics and evidences for proving. The author researched the topic from different sides and compared.

Is divorce harmful for children? Are children from divorce worse than children in married families? According to professor
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From 1950-1980 the divorcing increased. From 1995-2000 the divorcing decreased. From 2003-2005 the divorcing decreased. From 2011 the divorcing increases.

Generally, accretion of multiple stressful situations and changes create difficulties for children. There were few studies which have explored this hypothesis, however the results support that. Crowder and Teachman (2004) have evidences that children whose parents divorce more than once are worse than children whose parents divorce only once.

According to questionnaire the thinking of children about divorcing their parents.
The divorce affects harmful and badly for children. This statistics proves that. For the example, 73% of children think, that they can be another if parents are not divorced. It means that divorcing is a bad affecting for children.

I’d be another if parents not divorced 73%
My life would be better, if parents

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