Editing Divorce (section)

===Divorce and relationships===
Research done at [[Northern Illinois University]] on Family and Child Studies suggests that divorce of couples experiencing high conflict can positively affect families by reducing conflict in the home. There are, however, many instances when the parent-child relationship may suffer due to divorce. Financial support is many times lost when an adult goes through a divorce. The adult may be obligated to obtain additional work to maintain financial stability. This can lead to a negative relationship between the parent and child; the relationship may suffer due to a lack of attention towards the child and minimal parental supervision.<ref name="Family, Consumer 2003"/>

Studies have also shown that parental skills decrease after a divorce occurs; however, this effect is only a temporary change. "Many researchers have shown that a disequilibrium, including diminished parenting skills, occurs in the year following the divorce but that by two years after the divorce re-stabilization has occurred and parenting skills have improved."<ref>{{cite book|author=Santrock, John W. |title=Adolescence|url=https://archive.org/details/adolescence2003sant |url-access=registration |pages=[https://archive.org/details/adolescence2003sant/page/147 147–81]|date=2003}}</ref>

Some couples choose divorce even when one spouse's desire to remain married is greater than the other spouse's desire to obtain a divorce. In economics, this is known as the [[Zelder Paradox]] and is more familiar with marriages that have produced children and less common with childless couples.<ref name="Zelder1993">{{cite journal |last1=Zelder |first1=Martin |year=1993 |title=Inefficient Dissolutions as a Consequence of Public Goods: The Case of No-Fault Divorce |journal=Journal of Legal Studies |volume=XXII |issue=2 |pages=503–520 |doi=10.1086/468174 |s2cid=153426324 }}</ref>

Research has also found that recent divorcees report significantly higher hostility levels after the divorce than before, and that this effect applies equally to both male and female divorcees.<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Kjeld|first1=Simone G.|last2=Strizzi|first2=Jenna M.|last3=Øverup|first3=Camilla S.|last4=Cipric|first4=Ana|last5=Sander|first5=Søren|last6=Hald|first6=Gert M.|date=2020|title=Friend or foe? Postdivorce hostility among recently divorced individuals|url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/ab.21918|journal=Aggressive Behavior|language=en|volume=46|issue=6|pages=523–534|doi=10.1002/ab.21918|pmid=32710485|s2cid=225438333|issn=1098-2337|access-date=15 October 2020|archive-date=19 October 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201019132042/https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/ab.21918|url-status=live}}</ref>

In an [[American Psychological Association]] study of parents' relocation after a divorce, researchers found that a move has a long-term effect on children. In the first study conducted amongst 2,000 college students on the effects of parental relocation relating to their children's well-being after divorce, researchers found major differences. In divorced families in which one parent moved, the students received less financial support from their parents compared with divorced families in which neither parent moved. These findings also imply other negative outcomes for these students, such as more distress related to the divorce and did not feel a sense of emotional support from their parents. Although the data suggests negative outcomes for these students whose parents relocate after divorce, there is insufficient research that can alone prove the overall well-being of the child<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.apa.org/monitor/sep03/parents.aspx |title=September 2003, Vol 34, No. 8 Print version: page 18 |publisher=American Psychological Association |access-date=2012-03-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120516001441/http://www.apa.org/monitor/sep03/parents.aspx |archive-date=2012-05-16 |url-status=live }}</ref> A newer study in the ''Journal of Family Psychology'' found that parents who move more than an hour away from their children after a divorce are much less well off than those parents who stayed in the same location<ref>{{cite web |editor=Nadine J. Kaslow |url=http://www.apa.org/pubs/journals/fam/index.aspx |title=Nadine J. Kaslow (Vol. 17, No. 2) |publisher=American Psychological Association |access-date=2012-03-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120414121651/http://www.apa.org/pubs/journals/fam/index.aspx |archive-date=2012-04-14 |url-status=live }}</ref>