Similarly, adults who experienced a parental divorce compared with adults raised in continuously intact two-parent family, exhibit lower psychological well-being, more behavioral problems, less education, lower job status and marital satisfaction, a heightened risk of divorce and being a single parent, and poorer physical health.

The article indicated that children's adjustment to divorce is based on the amount and quality of contact with non custodial parents, the custodial parental adjustment and parenting skills, the level of interparental conflict, the number of stressful life events before, during, and after divorce, and the degree of economic hardship.