Study: Australian children’s mental health deteriorating due to marriage breakdown

by Thaddeus Baklinski
Tue Sep 06, 2011

(LifeSiteNews.com) - The psychological well-being of children and young people, especially young girls, in Australia has deteriorated significantly in the past 10 years, according to a report released today by Professor Patrick Parkinson of the Faculty of Law at the University of Sydney.

The “For Kids’ Sake” report, commissioned by the Australian Christian Lobby (ACL), found that rising divorce rates, the breakdown of cohabiting relationships, and the increase in children born to single mothers is largely responsible for that deterioration.

The report emphasizes the negative impact of family breakdown “in particular to a rapidly worsening situation for vulnerable teenage girls.”

“In Australia, the number of children who do no reach the age of 15 in an intact family with both of their biological parents has almost doubled within a generation,” Prof. Parkinson states. the rest