Effects of Post-Divorce Parental Conflict on Children’s Educational Achievement

Abstract

This study analyses the effect of parental separation or divorce on
children’s educational achievement, and includes parental conflict as a
factor of analysis. The study is based on the analysis of the Panel of
Families and Children, with a sample of 2,731 adolescents aged
between13 to 16 years old in Catalonia, Spain. The main results show
that the children of divorced parents who have a conflicted relationship
are more likely to obtain poorer educational results than the children of
divorced parents without conflict and two-parent households. However,
children of divorced parents with no conflicted relationship are less likely
on average to receive a failing grade than those who live in two-parent
households.