A Children's Divorce Clinic:

Analysis of research data on 200 children and their families seen at a Children's Divorce Clinic yielded a number of significant findings. Preschool children were often told nothing about the divorce. Ethnically-mixed marriages tended to fail before non-mixed marriages. Fathers with higher levels of education and with professional jobs were more apt to have sole or joint custody. The parent who did not make the decision to divorce was more often prone to depression, whereas the parent who make the decision was more often relieved. Mothers with professional or managerial postions were less depressed and anxious than statistically expected, and were more angry and relieved than mothers with other kinds of jobs.