When individuals experienced the divorce of their parents in childhood and adolescence they were more likely to?

Persons raised in divorced families tend to have less positive attitudes towards marriage, and more positive attitudes towards divorce. This negative attitude about marriage leads to decreased commitment to romantic relationships, which in turn is related to lower relationship quality.1) Divorce can also affect children's sexual behavior, thereby compromising their emotional and relational stability.

Young women from divorced families will feel a need for love and attention and yet fear abandonment; they will also be prone to both desire and anxiety.23) Women whose parents divorce are likely to be hampered or even overwhelmed by anxiety when it comes time to make decisions about marriage,24) though some “women with no ill effects from paternal divorce, may develop [the] security of friendship-based love quite well.”25) One study linked parental divorce to lower relationship commitment and confidence in women but not in men.26)

The children of divorced parents, stepfamilies, or single parents are less likely to expect to marry.31) Children who have experienced parental divorce are more likely to expect to divorce, compared with children of intact families.32) Children of divorce also have more negative attitudes towards marriage33) and a preference for smaller family sizes, although the negative attitudes are mitigated by their parents’ remarriage.34)

Divorce and separation correlate positively with diminished school achievement and performance.11) Children from intact families have fewer behavioral problems in school.12) For example, first-grade children born to married mothers are less likely to exhibit disruptive behavior, such as disobeying a teacher or behaving aggressively towards peers, than children born to cohabiting or single mothers.13)

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Donna R. Morrison and Mary Jo Coiro, “Parental Conflict and Marital Disruption: Do Children Benefit When High-Conflict Marriages Are Dissolved?” Journal of Marriage and the Family 61, (1999): 626.
Jennifer M. Weaver, and Thomas J. Schofield, “Mediation and Moderation of Divorce Effects on Children’s Behavior Problems,” Journal of Family Psychology 29, no. 1 (2015): 39, 43, 45.

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Donna R. Morrison and Mary Jo Coiro, “Parental Conflict and Marital Disruption: Do Children Benefit When High-Conflict Marriages Are Dissolved?” Journal of Marriage and the Family 61, (1999): 634.

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D.R. Morrison and M.J. Coiro, “Parental Conflict and Marital Disruption: Do Children Benefit When High-Conflict Marriages Are Dissolved?” Journal of Marriage and the Family 61, (1999): 632.

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Juliana M. Sobolewski and Paul R. Amato, “Parents' Discord and Divorce, Parent-Child Relationships and Subjective Well-Being in Early Adulthood: Is Feeling Close to Two Parents Always Better Than Feeling Close to One?,” Social Forces 85, no. 3 (2007): 1121.

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Patrick T. Davies and E. Mark Cummings, “Marital Conflict and Child Adjustment: An Emotional Security Hypothesis,” Psychological Bulletin 116, (1994): 387-411. As cited in Paul R. Amato and Arland Booth, A Generation at Risk, (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1997), 137.
K.P. McCoy, et al, “Constructive and Destructive Marital Conflict, Parenting, and Children's School and Social Adjustment,” Social Development 22, no. 4 (November 2013): 641.

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Paul R. Amato, Children in Australian Families: The Growth of Competence, (Sydney: Prentice Hall of Australia, 1987). As cited in Paul R. Amato and Alan Booth, A Generation at Risk, (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1997), 137.

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R. Forehand, “Family Characteristics of Adolescents Who Display Overt and Covert Behavior Problems,” Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry 18, (1987): 325-328.

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Chunyan Song, Mary Benin, and Jennifer Glick, “Dropping Out of High School: The Effects of Family Structure and Family Transitions,” Journal of Divorce & Remarriage 53, no. 1 (2012): 28-29.

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Jeffrey J. Wood, Rena L. Repetti, and Scott C. Roesch, “Divorce and Children’s Adjustment Problems at Home and School: The Role of Depressive/Withdrawn Parenting,” Child Psychiatry and Human Development 35, no. 2 (2004): 131.

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P.S. Malone, J.E. Lansford, D.R. Castellino, L.J. Berlin, K.A. Dodge, J.E. Bates, and G.S. Pettit, “Divorce and Child Behavior Problems: Applying Latent Change Score Models to Life Event Data,” Structural Equation Modeling 11, no. 3 (2004): 417.

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Milling Kinard and Helen Reinherz, “Effects of Marital Disruption on Children’s School Aptitude and Achievement,” Journal of Marriage and Family 48, (1986): 289-290.
Paul R. Amato, “Children of Divorce in the 1990s: An Update of the Amato and Keith (1991) Meta-Analysis,” Journal of Family Psychology 15, (2001): 355-370.

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Wendy Manning and Kathleen Lamb, “Adolescent Well-Being in Cohabitating, Married, and Single-Parent Families,” Journal of Marriage and Family 65, (November 2003): 876–893. As cited by The Heritage Foundation: Family Facts. Available at http://www.familyfacts.org/briefs/35/family-structure-and-childrens-education. Accessed 20 July 2011.
Paul R. Amato and Alan Booth, “Consequences of Parental Divorce and Marital Unhappiness for Adult Well-Being,” Social Forces 69, (1991): 895–914.
James S. Coleman, et al., Equality of Educational Opportunity (Washington, D.C.:U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare, 1966).
Ruth B. Ekstrom, et al., “Who Drops Out of School and Why: Findings From a National Study,” Teachers College Record 87, (1986): 356-73.
D.R. Featherstone, B.P. Cundick, and L.C. Jensen, “Differences in School Behavior and Achievement between Children from Intact, Reconsituted, and Single-Parent Families,” Adolescence 27, no. 105 (1992): 1-12.
Debra J. Mulholland, et al., “Academic Performance in Children of Divorce: Psychological Resilience and Vulnerability,” Psychiatry 54, (1991): 268-280.

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Shannon E. Cavanagh and Aletha C. Huston, “Family Instability and Children’s Early Problem Behavior,” Social Forces 85, no. 1 (September 2006): 551-581.

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This chart draws on data collected by the National Center for Health Statistics in the National Survey of Children’s Health (NSCH) in 2003. The data sample consisted of parents of 102,353 children and teens in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. 68,996 of these children and teens were between six and 17 years old, the age group that was the focus of the study. The survey sample in this age range represented a population of nearly 49 million young people nationwide.
Patrick F. Fagan, “Behavior Problems and Family Structure,” Mapping America Project. Available at http://marri.us/wp-content/uploads/MA-28-30-158.pdf

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This chart draws on a large national sample (16,000) from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health. This work was done by the author in cooperation with former colleagues at The Heritage Foundation, Washington, D.C
Patrick F. Fagan, “Family Structure and Expulsion or Suspension from School.” Available at http://marri.us/wp-content/uploads/MA-19-21-155.pdf. Accessed 22 September 2011.
Paul R. Amato, “The Impact of Family Formation Change on the Cognitive, Social, and Emotional Wellbeing of the Next Generation,” Future of Children 15, (2005): 86.
Wendy D. Manning and Kathleen A. Lamb, “Adolescent Well-Being in Cohabitating, Married, and Single-Parent Families,” Journal of Marriage and the Family 65, no. 4 (2003): 885-893.
Annette U. Rickel and Thomas S. Langer, “Short-Term and Long-Term Effects of Marital Disruption on Children,” American Journal of Community Psychology 13, (1985): 599–661.

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Robert E. Billingham and Nicole L. Notebaert, “Divorce and Dating Violence Revisited: Multivariate Analyses Using Straus’s Conflict Tactics Subscores,” Psychological Reports 73, (1993): 679-684.

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David M. Fergusson, Geraldine F. H. McLeod, and L. John Horwood, “Parental Separation/Divorce in Childhood and Partnership Outcomes at Age 30,” Journal Of Child Psychology & Psychiatry 55, no. 4 (2014): 357.

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Pamela S. Webster, Terri L. Orbuch, and James S. House, “Effects of Childhood Family Background on Adult Marital Quality and Perceived Stability,” American Journal of Sociology 101, (1995): 404-432.
Galena K. Rhoades, et al, “Parents' Marital Status, Conflict, and Role Modeling: Links With Adult Romantic Relationship Quality,” Journal Of Divorce & Remarriage 53, no. 5 (2012): 348, 358.

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Researchers have found that the children of violent parents do better if their parents separate. However, if the parents’ conflict is not violent or intense, their children fare better in their own marriages if their parents remain married. Obviously, the best solution for all concerned is that parents learn how to handle conflict and to cooperate with each other, thereby restoring family harmony.

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This chart draws on a large national sample (16,000) from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health. This work was done by the author in cooperation with former colleagues at The Heritage Foundation, Washington, D.C
Patrick F. Fagan, “Family Structure and Fighting,” Mapping America Project. Available at http://marri.us/wp-content/uploads/MA-13-15-153.pdf

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William G. Axinn and Arland Thornton, “The Influence of Parents’ Marital Dissolutions on Children’s Attitudes toward Family Formation,” Demography 33, (1996): 66-81.
William H. Jeynes, “The Effects of Recent Parental Divorce on Their Children’s Sexual Attitudes and Behavior,” Journal of Divorce and Remarriage 35, (2001): 125.

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William H. Jeynes, “The Effects of Recent Parental Divorce on Their Children’s Sexual Attitudes and Behavior,” Journal of Divorce and Remarriage 35, (2001): 125.

23)

Ryan D. Schroeder, Aurea K. Osgood, and Michael J. Oghia, “Family Transitions and Juvenile Delinquency,” Sociological Inquiry 80, no. 4 (November 2010): 579, 596.

24)

Robert J. Sampson, “Crime in Cities: The Effects of Formal and Informal Social Control,” Communities and Crime 8, Crime and Justice, ed. Albert J. Reiss and Michael Tonry (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1987), 271-311.
Walter Forrest, “Cohabitation, Relationship Quality, and Desistance From Crime,” Journal of Marriage and Family 76, (2014): 547-549, 551.

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Wisconsin Department of Health and Social Services, Division of Youth Services, “Family Status of Delinquents in Juvenile Correctional Facilities in Wisconsin” (1994). The data from the report were merged with Current Population Survey data on family structure in Wisconsin for that year to derive rates of incarceration by family structure.

26)

Cynthia C. Harper, and Sara S. McLanahan, “Father Absence and Youth Incarceration,” Journal of Research on Adolescence 14, no. 3 (2004): 384-386.

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David P. Farrington, “Implications of Criminal Career Research for the Prevention of Offending,” Journal of Adolescence 13, (1990): 93-113

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Marvin D. Krohn, Gina Penly Hall, and Alan J. Lizotte, “Family Transitions and Later Delinquency and Drug Use,” Journal Of Youth And Adolescence 38, no. 3 (2009): 473.

29)

Kyrre Breivik and Dan Olweus, “Adolescent's Adjustment in Four Post-Divorce Family Struc-tures: Single Mother, Stepfather, Joint Physical Custody and Single Father Families,” Journal of Divorce and Remarriage 44, no. 3 (2006): 114.

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Parliament of the Commonwealth of Australia, House of Representatives, Standing Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs, To Have and To Hold: Strategies to Strengthen Marriage and Relationships (Canberra, Australia, Parliament of Australia: 1998), 36.

31)

Abbie K. Frost and Bilge Pakiz, “The Effects of Marital Disruption on Adolescents: Time as a Dynamic,” American Journal of Orthopsychiatry 60, (1990): 544-555.
Others have found that children of divorced parents are up to six times as likely to be delinquent as children from intact families. See David B. Larson, James P. Swyers, and Susan S. Larson, The Costly Consequences of Divorce (Rockville, MD: National Institute for Healthcare Research, 1995), 123.

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Annette U. Rickel and Thomas S. Langer, “Short-term and Long-term Effects of Marital Disruption on Children,” American Journal of Community Psychology 13, (1985): 599-661.

33)

Kathleen B. Rodgers and Hilary A. Rose, “Risk and Resiliency Factors Among Adolescents Who Experience Marital Transitions,” Journal of Marriage and Family 64, (2002): 1028-1029.

34)

Ronald L. Simons, Kuei-Hsiu Lin, Leslie C. Gordon, Rand D. Conger, and Frederick O. Lorenz, “Explaining the Higher Incidence of Adjustment Problems Among Children of Divorce Compared with Those in Two-Parent Families,” Journal of Marriage and the Family 61, (1999): 1030.

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Karen Heimer, “Gender, Interaction, and Delinquency: Testing a Theory of Differential Social Control,” Social Psychology Quarterly 59, (1996): 39-61
Sofie Vanassche, An K. Sodermans, Koen Matthijs, and Gray Swicegood, “The Effects of Family Type, Family Relationships and Parental Role Models on Delinquency and Alcohol Use Among Flemish Adolescents,” Journal Of Child & Family Studies 23, no. 1 (2014): 135.

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Bilge Pakiz, Helen Z. Reinherz, and Rose M. Giaconia, “Early Risk Factors for Serious Antisocial Behavior at Age 21: A Longitudinal Community Study,” American Journal of Orthopsychiatry 67, (1997): 92-100.

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Neil Kalter, Barbara Riemer, Arthur Brickman, and Jade Woo Chen, “Implications of Parental Divorce for Female Development,” Journal of the American Academy of Child Psychiatry 24, no. 5 (1985): 538-544.

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Abbie K. Frost and Bilge Pakiz, “The Effects of Marital Disruption on Adolescents: Time as a Dynamic,” American Journal of Orthopsychiatry 60, (1990): 544-555.
Ronald G. Thompson, Dana Alonzo, Bridget F. Grant, and Deborah S. Hasin, “Parental Divorce, Maternal–Paternal Alcohol Problems, and Adult Offspring Lifetime Alcohol Dependence,” Journal Of Social Work Practice In The Addictions 13, no. 3 (2013): 295, 302.

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This chart draws on a large national sample (16,000) from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health. This work was done by the author in cooperation with former colleagues at The Heritage Foundation, Washington, D.C.
Patrick F. Fagan, “Family Structure and Theft,” Mapping America Project. Available at http://marri.us/wp-content/uploads/MA-22-24-156.pdf

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Kathleen B. Rodgers and Hilary A. Rose, “Risk and Resiliency Factors among Adolescents Who Experience Marital Transitions,” Journal of Marriage and Family 64, (2002): 1028-1029.

41)

John P. Hoffmann, “Exploring the Direct and Indirect Family Effects on Adolescent Drug Use,” Journal of Drug Issues 23, (1993): 535-557.
Jeremy Arkes, “The Temporal Effects of Parental Divorce on Youth Substance Use,” Substance Use & Misuse 48, no. 3 (2013): 294, 296.

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R.H. Needle, S.S. Su, and W.J. Doherty, “Divorce, Remarriage, and Adolescent Substance Use: A Prospective Longitudinal Study,” Journal of Marriage and Family 52, (1990): 162
Kyrre Breivik and Dan Olweus, “Adolescent's Adjustment in Four Post-Divorce Family Structures: Single Mother, Stepfather, Joint Physical Custody and Single Father Families,” Journal of Divorce and Remarriage 44, no. 3 (2006): 115.

43)

Jeremy Arkes, “The Temporal Effects of Parental Divorce on Youth Substance Use,” Substance Use & Misuse 48, no. 3 (2013): 294, 296

44)

Frank F. Furstenberg and Kathleen E. Kiernan, “Delayed Parental Divorce: How Much Do Children Benefit?” Journal of Marriage and Family 63, (2001): 453.

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William J. Doherty and Richard H. Needle, “Psychological Adjustment and Substance Use among Adolescents Before and After a Parental Divorce,” Child Development 62, (1991): 332.
Jeremy Arkes, “The Temporal Effects of Parental Divorce on Youth Substance Use,” Substance Use & Misuse 48, no. 3 (2013): 293, 296.

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Frank F. Furstenberg and Kathleen E. Kiernan, “Delayed Parental Divorce: How Much Do Children Benefit?” Journal of Marriage and Family 63, (2001): 452.

47)

Tami M. Videon, “The Effects of Parent-Adolescent Relationships and Parental Separation on Adolescent Well-being,” Journal of Marriage and Family 64, (2002): 498

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This chart draws on a large national sample (16,000) from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health. This work was done by the author in cooperation with former colleagues at The Heritage Foundation, Washington, D.C.
Patrick F. Fagan, “Family Structure and Drinking,” Mapping America Projects. Available at http://marri.us/wp-content/uploads/MA-16-18-154.pdf

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This chart draws on a large national sample (16,000) from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health. This work was done by the author in cooperation with former colleagues at The Heritage Foundation, Washington, D.C.
Patrick F. Fagan, “Family Structure and Adolescent Use of Hard Drugs,” Mapping America Project. Available at http://marri.us/wp-content/uploads/MA-7-9-151.pdf

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David B. Larson, James P. Swyers, and Susan S. Larson, The Costly Consequences of Divorce, (Rockville, MD: National Institute for Healthcare Research, 1995), 126.
S.A Fotti, et al., “The Associations Between Peer and Parental Relationships and Suicidal Behaviours in Early Adolescents,” Canadian Journal Of Psychiatry 51, no. 11 (October 2006): 698, 700.

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John S. Wodarski and Pamela Harris, “Adolescent Suicide: A Review of Influences and the Means for Prevention,” Social Work 32, (1987): 479.

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Richard J. Cebula and Tatyana V. Zelenskaya, “Determinants of Youth Suicide: A Friendly Comment with Suggestions,” American Journal of Economics and Sociology 65, no. 4 (2006): 996.

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J. Hardt, A. Sidor, R. Nickel, B. Kappis, P. Petrak, and U.T. Egle, “Childhood Adversities and Suicide Attempts: A Retrospective Study,” Journal of Family Violence 23, (2008): 716.

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Patricia L. McCall and Kenneth C. Land, “Trends in White Male Adolescent, Young-Adult, and Elderly Suicide: Are There Common Underlying Structural Factors?” Social Science Research 23, (1994): 57-81.
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Justin T. Denney, “Family and Household Formations and Suicide in the United States,” Journal of Marriage and Family 72, (2010): 202, 208-209.

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D. Lizardi, R.G. Thompson, K. Keyes, and D. Hasin, “The Role of Depression in the Differential Effect of Childhood Parental Divorce on Male and Female Adult Offspring Suicide Attempt Risk,” The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease 198, no. 9 (2010): 689.

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D. Lizardi, R.G. Thompson, K. Keyes, and D. Hasin, “Parental Divorce, Parental Depression, and Gender Differences in Adult Offspring Suicide Attempt,” Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease 197, (2009): 901.

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David B. Larson, James P. Swyers, and Susan S. Larson, The Costly Consequences of Divorce, (Rockville, MD: National Institute for Healthcare Research, 1995), 124. C.N. Velez and P. Cohen, “Suicidal Behavior and Ideation in a Community Sample of Children: Maternal and Youth Reports,” Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry 27, (1988): 349-356.
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David Lester and Kazuhiko Abe, “The Regional Variation of Divorce Rates in Japan and the United States,” Journal of Divorce and Remarriage 18, (1993): 227-230.

This entry draws heavily from The Effects of Divorce on Children.

When individuals experience the divorce of their parents and childhood they were more likely to?

Research has shown children who have experienced divorce in the previous 20 years were more likely to participate in crimes, rebelling through destructive behavior which harms a child's health, with more children reporting they have acquired smoking habits, or prescription drug use.

Who are more likely to be negatively affected by their parents divorce?

That is, the negative effects of parental divorce are greater among white children and children of more educated parents because they are less accustomed to negative disruptive events and disadvantaged circumstances than racial and ethnic minority children and children of less educated parents (9–11).

How does having divorced parents affect a child?

Research has documented that parental divorce/separation is associated with an increased risk for child and adolescent adjustment problems, including academic difficulties (e.g., lower grades and school dropout), disruptive behaviors (e.g., conduct and substance use problems), and depressed mood2.

What is an effect of divorce on children quizlet?

Some short-term effects of divorce include lower self-esteem, anxiety, depression, less quality contact with parents, and standard of living decreases. In Dr.