re: Children of couples who divorce still suffer the effects decades later

This. My parents divorced when I was in high school and neither have anything to do with each other. It was a bitter split involving infidelity on my dad's part. I know it's incredibly common but it does effect kids very negatively throughput life when they grow up in the middle of something traumatic like that. It may be daddy issues for females who grew up in broken homes. Guys in that situation often say f it when it comes to ever making the ultimate commitment/getting married and end up never marrying in large part because of their parent's divorce.