The other area I do research in is domestic violence, and particularly the overlap of custody and divorce. So I think when you look at research—and this goes back to my point of it being socially constructed—you can look at it and see that divorce appears to be bad for kids and that would lead to the implication that we should try to lower divorce rates. When you start to break that apart and look at the role of poverty in single-parent families and the role of high conflict and the role of domestic violence, it's not divorce per se. This is debatable, but my reading is that it's not the divorce, it's all these other pieces. When there's a divorce and it doesn't send somebody into abject poverty, and they're free from violence, all those effects on kids tend to wash out.
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