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A new study released Wednesday by the Pew Charitable Trusts shows that the damage divorce does to poorer children’s future economic mobility is even greater than the impact suffered from having only one parent.

“Divorce is particularly harmful for children’s [economic] mobility,” Thomas DeLeire and Leonard M. Lopoo said in their report, “Family Structure and the Economic Mobility of Children.

“The two academics examined more than 30 years of data on some 2,200 families. In addition to tracking the incomes of parents and their now-adult children, the researchers looked at parental marital histories.

The data showed that parental divorce was a serious impediment to children's upward mobility.

via Divorce hinders poorer children – Washington Times.