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It’s an oft-quoted statistic: more than 40 percent of American marriages end in divorce. One common assumption is that these break-ups can have deleterious effects when children are involved. But psychologist Mavis Hetherington (University of Virginia), author of For Better or Worse: Divorce Reconsidered, says the outlook may not be so grave. Divorce raises the risk of undesirable things happening to children, she says, but most kids are going to do okay. Hetherington, who studied nearly 1,400 marriages over 30 years, shares her findings on the negative and positive effects of divorce.
