Low-Paying Job? Blame Your Parents' Divorce
Filed under: Divorce & Custody, In The News
Kids traumatized by their parents' divorce earn up to 30 percent less than kids whose parents remain married. Credit: Getty Images
Want your kids to put you in a nice nursing home -- one where they change the linens at least once every leap year?
Think twice about getting a divorce.
The London Daily Mail reports kids traumatized by their parents' divorce earn up to 30 percent less when they grow up compared with kids from unbroken homes.
This conclusion comes from a study by the Institute for Fiscal Studies and Rand Corporation. Just in case you weren't feeling guilty enough about your divorce already, now your kids can expect to earn $345,000 less during their lifetimes thanks to you.
Researchers looked at 17,634 British children born in the first week of March 1958, tracking them throughout their childhoods. Their parents and physicians were asked what kind of psychological problems (from one visit to a shrink all the way up to five-star, fur-lined, ocean-going schizophrenia) the kids experienced.
"Childhood psychological problems can have significant negative impacts over the course of an individual's life," James Smith, one of the authors of the study and a senior economist at the Rand Corporation, tells the Daily Mail.
Apparently.
The Daily Mail reports the study found kids who suffered psychological problems are likely to be "less conscientious" and tend to have "less stable" personal relationships.
Granted, the face of divorce has changed a bit over the years. Divorce in the '60s and '70s still carried a significant social stigma, and single mothers had fewer economic opportunities. So, maybe the trauma of divorce will not hold the same ravages for children of the 21st century as it did for the late baby boomers in the study?
Sorry. Researchers say it doesn't work that way.
They did some generational comparisons and estimate a troubled 23-year-old who started his first job in 2008 will earn $623,000 less in his lifetime than the well-adjusted guy in the next cubicle.
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ReaderComments (Page 1 of 1)
4-05-2011 @ 7:13PM
alvhun said...To start, the photo in this piece does not depict the correct picture immage when parents divorce. You have the female with her open left hand raised, the right hand resting. Her face indicates she is shocked, bewildered or otherwise stressed and gasping. This is a passive image. The male is seen with a frown, right hand clenched and finger pointing. The left hand is slightly raised. This is an aggressive image.
Clearly this photo shows that the female is the victim and the male the aggressor and insinuating being responsible for the family breakdown or breakup. This is simply inconsistent with reality and the truth. Society has been conditioned by women's advocacy groups to believe the skewed propaganda receiving hundreds of millions of dollars in public funding.
The child is shown accurately as the one who is being trampled by the feuding parents and sadly is the biggest victim in divorce. The child's head is covered who really wants no part of this devastating behaviour by his parents.
Women initiate the vast majority of divorcee and women end up with custody of children in over 80% of the cases. In addition to that they end up with the matrimonial home and the cash for life incentive that comes with getting custody. Moreover, women initiate Domestic Violence in intimate relationships at least as often as men. Women are responsible for over 70% of infanticide and tend to harm children more often than men. The biggest weapons in divorcing women's arsenal are these. PA(S)-Parental Alienation (Syndrome), False Rape allegations, False Sexual allegations towards mom and/or the child(ren), False Domestic Violence allegations and the use of CAS-Children's Aid Societies against fathers.
When a woman decides to divorce she has the police, family court, CAS, Women's Shelters and an array of other establishments at her disposal to eject the father from the home, keep him from the home and the children as she goes to court and uses the boiler plate Status Quo to get everything she wants.
For a man to get custody is a near impossibility. I had Mr. Kevin S. Dunsmuir, a family lawyer in Newmarket, say to a father, "If you want to get custody of the children, you will need to prove the mother eats babies and has DNA evidence she does not have a twin sister!" (If the editor/moderator has any concern, I have this statement on tape.)
So reality is this. Women initiate the majority of divorce. They become enriched while the father becomes impoverished. The children are used as pawns. The mother gets the majority of the contact with the children while most often dad becomes an every other weekend visitor. Step-dads who can never replace a biological dad end up being the male presence in children's lives. There is chaos. Children are lied to and even alienated from dads as moms have control over children who are often kept from seeing their fathers in violation of Court Orders with impunity as moms are allowed to get away with this violation of C.O.s.
Children are devastated to the point that they harm themselves and even commit suicide. Such is the outcome of 8 fathers every day of every year who take their lives as they are driven literally to their ropes end by divorce. This happens every day of every year as it did last year, this year and as it will happen next year.
Many children turn to drugs and alcohol to cope. They stray from the desire to excel in school as their self esteem is broken by divorce. They are less able to know how to love and care for they see how their own parents who created them don't love each other and in fact are feuding and uncaring. Children imitate what they see and hear far more than what they are told is right and wrong. Children want to see their parents respect each other and they want to spend equal time with each of them. Equal Shared Parenting is what would work best under Bill C422 which is yet to become law.
Study after study shows that both boys and girls do far better with a healthy relationship with fathers, yet their presence is kept to a minimum to ensure primary care or full custody that also brings the flow of tax free cash when parents divorce.
Another effect on children is that schools are heavily driven to accommodate the learning mode of girls while boys are made to functions in a female friendly environment that does not bode well for boys and their education.
That children will earn less money as a result of divorce should be the lesser of concerns. The fact that children are very negatively affected both physically and mentally by divorce should be the bigger concern. But just like the fact that the Divorce Industry profits heavily by divorcing couples who often spend the wealth of the family to split up. Money that the child(ren) would have for education is spent on lawyers instead. Brilliant.
As an advocate for the rights of families and children, I see divorce as the most fundamental harm to our society in every way. Children, our future are treated very poorly and showered with material stuff that will never replace an intact home with two loving parents. Children want their parent's time more than anything.
We should be very concerned how our youth will treat us in our old age. It is time to remove the advantages afforded to women in divorce making equal shared parenting the datum. If one parent wanted sole custody or primary care it would be their burden to prove the other parent unfit. False allegations of any kind and Perjury should be met with stiff sentencing. That would eliminate the lies and public mischief that the courts currently tolerate and are rampant. Neither parent should pay the other spousal or child support, given both equally share child rearing and women are just as capable as men to work and make a living in our modern world of equality.
My source of information.
Prof. Martin S. Fiebert, Robert Franklin esq., Erin Pizzey, Vernon Beck, The False Rape Society, University of Toronto, Dr. Jayne Major, Dr. Peter Forbath, RK Hendrick esq., Father's and Families, Glenn Sacks, Canada Court Watch and Dr. Paul Elam.
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4-04-2011 @ 7:59PM
Averagedancer said...Both parents, to my eyes, appear to be struggling for control, in this photo. Odd, Alvhun, that you would look for a reason - any reason - to blame women for the world's woes. How very typical of misogynists, and how very trite. Grow up, for crying out loud.
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4-06-2011 @ 7:17AM
alvhun said...It appears your eyes are obscured by decades of conditioning to see things the way you do, Averagedancer. Sadly you are not alone. I am an avid advocate for the rights of families and children applying fundamental principles of care towards my fellow mankind void of bigotry as within your nebulous short retort.
I did not need to look for any reason to blame women. The facts speak clearly for themselves. I merely voiced them and stated them. I also qualified my assertions based on facts including siting many of my sources of information.
Why don't you try to attack the issues at hand, and not me? Try challenging what I have intimated. If you had done that, you may not be seen clearly, a typical misandrist vagabond. Be a woman who takes responsibility for what women are doing in our communities throughout the world that is causing unrest. Open your eyes and see what is going on. Denying the facts does not change the facts.
Yours is a typical response Averagedancer with an aptitude that is evidently bellow average. So when you hear something you don't like, you throw a temper tantrum and go on a wild wanton attack in an attempt to muzzle the truth. Doesn't work that way. You may think you are all grown up, but in time you may realize how little you have matured and may even cease to use dry cliché statements.
I will leave you with this thought. One woman and eight men commit suicide in Canada every day as a result of the ravages of divorce. That's 365 women and 2,920 men every year. Does this concern you? It concerns me a lot!
"Dr. Paul Links, professor of psychiatry and chair of suicide studies at the University of Toronto, reports that difficult divorces or loss of children fit the profile of loss leading to suicide. Divorced men kill themselves twice as often as single or married men, and since men in general commit suicide four times as frequently as women, divorced men commit suicide eight times more often than women in the general population. Yet, little is known about male suicidal behaviour in Canada." -Dr. Paul Links, Prof of psychiatry at UofT
We can see the harmful effect divorce has on children and indeed our society, especially men/fathers. Given that women initiate the majority of divorce, gaining custody, matrimonial homes, cash and control while men are reduced to poverty and often unwarranted jail time, should we be blaming men for this social disaster? I wonder?
Attila L. Vinczer