Kids with autism prevent parents from divorce
In the past, statistics showed that 80 percent of marriages including a child with autism ended in divorce.
A new study says that’s not true. In fact, parents of autistic children are no more likely to divorce than any other parents.
“Our hope is to get this information out to families so they can feel a greater sense of hopefulness about their own family relations when they find out they have a child with autism,” said Brian Freedman, an autism researcher and the study’s lead author.
It’s been estimated by The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that one in 110 children has autism, about 80 percent of them boys.
Families with autistic children do suffer high levels of stress, even when compared with families with kids who have other kinds of chronic conditions, said Geraldine Dawson, chief science officer of the advocacy organization Autism Speaks.
She has also heard the 80 percent statistic, which “had been part of the clinical lore.”, but “in spite of all that, families are staying intact, and marriages are not falling apart.”
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