Editing Divorce (section)

====Academic and socioeconomic====
Frequently, children who have experienced a parental divorce have lower academic achievement than children from non-divorced families<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Wolchik |first1=S. A. |display-authors=etal |year=2002 |title=''et. al''. (2002) "Six-Year Follow-up of Preventive Interventions for Children of Divorce |journal=Journal of the American Medical Association |volume=288 |issue=15 |pages=1874–1881 |doi=10.1001/jama.288.15.1874 |pmid=12377086 |doi-access= }}</ref>
A review of family and school factors related to adolescents' academic performance noted that a child from a divorced family is two times more likely to drop out of high school than a child from a non-divorced family. These children from divorced families may also be less likely to attend college, resulting in the end of their academic career.<ref>Rodgers, Kathleen B, and Rose, Hillary A. Personal, Family, and School Factors Related to Adolescents' Academic Performance: A Comparison by Family Structure". ''Marriage & Family Review''. V33 n4. pp 47–61. 2001.</ref>

Often academic problems are associated with children from [[single-parent]] families. Studies have shown that this may be directly related to the economic effect of divorce. A divorce may result in the parent and children moving to an area with a higher poverty rate and a poor education system, because of the financial difficulties of a single parent.<ref>Santrock, John W. Adolescence. pp 147–81. 200</ref>

Children of divorced parents also on average achieve lower levels of socioeconomic status, income, and wealth accumulation than children of parents who remain married. These outcomes are associated with lower educational achievement.<ref name="Amato"/>

Young men or women between the ages of 7 and 16 who had experienced the divorce of their parents were more likely than youths who had not experienced the divorce of their parents to leave home because of friction, to cohabit before marriage, and to parent a child before marriage.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Cherlin|first1=AJ|title=Marriage, Divorce, and Remarriage|url=https://archive.org/details/marriagedivorcer00cher|url-access=registration|date=1992|publisher=Harvard University Press|location=Cambridge, MA|page=[https://archive.org/details/marriagedivorcer00cher/page/142 142]|isbn=9780674550827}}</ref>

Divorce often leads to worsened academic achievement in children ages 7–12, the most heightened negative effect being reading test scores. These negative effects tend to persist, and even escalate after the divorce or separation occurs.<ref name="Children 2014"/>