It certainly gets easier with two parents. It probably would be even easier with 3 or 4 but polygamy is complicated for other reasons.
I think that is simplistic. Kids just need two parents who love them. They don't need them to love and stay with each other although it is ideal if they do. I wouldn't want to model that for my daughter - staying in a loveless marriage. I'd rather she saw a civilised break-up.
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Oh yes, if it goes nasty or results in poor parenting, it can certainly be a problem but I think we'd need to compare that to the success of kids whose parents are together acrimoniously and are poor parents.
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It isn't their parents not being together which causes the problem but additional factors which also apply to parents being together. I had an absent father but not because my parents split up but because his career took him away a lot and when home, at work when I was awake.
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