There has been a trend in recent years of a rise in the number of unmarried, childless people. Although this cannot be wholly ascribed to divorce, according to Wallerstein's research, two-thirds of the children of divorced parents decide not to have children after they grow up, with the reason being fear of creating more unhappy kids like themselves.
不婚、不育族增加，近年成為一種趨勢，雖然不能完全歸咎於「父母離婚」造成的影響，但根據朱蒂絲的研究，有高達三分之二的離婚之子，成年後決定不生孩子，為的是害怕製造出另一個不快樂的童年的自己。