ults were said to suggest that family income available to children drops by about 37 percent immediately following loss of a father through divorce. The economic differences between children who experience family disruption and those who do not was said to result from two factors: the economic hardship brought on by a father's departure and the fact that economic disadvantage tends to precede family disruption.
In addition, Bianchi and McArthur (1991) found that children who experienced a marital disruption were better off after the disruption than those who were in one-parent families throughout the period. Similarly, children whose mothers were observed to remarry or reconcile following the divorce were better off while they lived in single parent families than were children who lived with their mother only throughout the panel. A study which specifically focused on the relationship of behavioral problems such as substance abuse to adolescent children of divorce was conducted by
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