Used data from the National Educational Longitudinal Survey to study the effects of remarriage following divorce on children's academic achievement. Results indicate that children from reconstituted families score no higher, and often lower than children of divorce from single-parent families. (SLD)

Studied whether children whose parents were recently divorced were more likely to consume alcohol frequently or in large quantities than those whose parents divorced earlier. Results for nearly 20,000 students from the National Education Longitudinal Study show that children whose parents were recently divorced were more likely to drink more and…