Young children of divorce are not only more likely to suffer from anxiety, loneliness, low self-esteem and sadness, they experience long-lasting setbacks in interpersonal skills and math test scores, new research suggests. Children do not fall behind their peers in these areas during the potentially disruptive period before their parents divorce, the study revealed. Instead, it?s after the split that kids seem to have the most trouble coping. “Somewhat surprisingly, children of divorce do not experience detrimental setbacks in the pre-divorce period,” noted study author Hyun Sik Kim, a doctoral candidate in the department of sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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