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New research hints at a silver lining for children after divorce: happier stepfamilies.

Some social scientists have claimed that divorce harms children for the rest of their lives leading them to form marriages as unhappy as their parents’. But other recent studies say marital breakups have mixed long-term effects, fostering growth in some children and the resolve to build happier marriages of their own.

via Happier Marriages for Kids of Divorce? – The Juggle – WSJ.