title: Children who experience divorce in their family.
abstract: In England and Wales, just over 160 thousand children aged under 16 experienced divorce in their family in 1995, about one in every 65 children that year. This article describes recent trends in the numbers of couples who have divorced, by the number and ages of their children. Results are given from a birth cohort analysis of the proportions of children who have experienced divorce in their families by different ages. The article also assesses the implications for the proportions of children who would be affected by divorce by certain ages, were divorce rates to continue at their 1994/95 levels.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Haskey
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D017677:Age Distribution; D002648:Child; D002669:Child Welfare; D002675:Child, Preschool; D004243:Divorce / Q000706:statistics & numerical data* / Q000639:trends*; D004739:England; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D015993:Life Tables; D014852:Wales