Communicating with Dad After Divorce Is Important for Teen Health
(WorldNews Environment)

New research confirms the importance of sustaining a strong relationship between teenagers and both parents after a divorce. Maintaining a close association with the father is especially important; Norwegian investigators discovered conversational difficulties between a father and child can negatively affect a child’s health. “This demonstrates that contact with both parents after a divorce is important,� said Professor Eivind Meland, University of Bergen. According to numbers from the Norwegian Institute of Public Health around 40 per cent of all teenagers have experienced a divorce. “We wanted to...