Divorce appears to have a bigger impact on children's educational attainment than parental death

It's pretty horrible for them socially too. You literally only have half of what you need to be well adjusted. One parent can try to be two but it's never the same. I never had my father in my life, Mom divorced him when I was 2. He didn't provide a single thing for me, or help me with anything. I barely had a concept of what a father even was. My mom's brothers were the closest thing I got and they were second hand mostly. My mom never pursued child support and my father waited until I was an adult to try to connect with me. Then proceeded to not remember anything about me and do sketchy fraud schemes. Disappeared again and again, and I just had to cut off contact. It's made me never want to have a kid, so I don't screw them up like my parents did to me. Plus with my anxiety issues and other health issues me and my wife deal with. Not that we could afford one anyway.

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