Matt Walsh Claims Divorce Has Worse Impact on Children Than Parental Death

What was said

"Four years ago, looking at data from 17 countries, researchers in the Netherlands, writing in the journal Demographic Research found that when it comes to a child's educational progress, quote, parental divorce had a larger impact than parental death. So, I'll say that again. When measuring a child's educational attainment, how far he progress in school, and how well he does in school, parental divorce had a larger impact than parental death."

Walsh cites a study from Demographic Research analyzing data from 17 countries that found parental divorce has a greater negative impact on children's educational outcomes than the death of a parent. He argues this is because divorce represents a conscious rejection of the family unit and deliberate betrayal of vows, breeding lifelong resentment and confusion in children in ways that parental death typically does not.