Marriage: How sticking with it can pay off

15 August 12, 2015 How sticking with it can pay off Based on the new IMFC report Sticking with it: Canadian research on how marriage benefits children and adults PETER JON MITCHELL Senior Researcher, Institute of Marriage and Family Canada Young Canadians have grown up in a culture of celebrity divorce and cynicism about the happy ending. [...] And while thriving Children in lone-parent homes are more children come from a variety of family likely to experience emotional distress, backgrounds, research points to the benefit of anxiety and hyperactivity than children stable, two-parent families. [...] A 2003 study found that children who experience family change are more likely to exhibit emotional and behaviour issues such as hyperactivity, fighting and hurting others.9 A 2014 study compared outcomes for children who lived with married, biological parents and those with cohabiting, biological parents before the age of one. [...] What makes it fall apart? The determinants of the dissolution of marriages and common-law unions in Canada. [...] Family and demographic changes and the economic well-being of preschool-age children in Canada, 1981-1997, p.159.