Later children or adolescents will live in single-parent families. Divorce affects these children in a very important way. A child raised by both parents is less likely to have social problems. For example, you are less likely to drop out of school, become a teenage parent, become a delinquent, etc. And a child who has seen his parents divorce and now lives with a single parent is more likely to become a delinquent, use drugs, become a teen parent, experience domestic violence, even later divorce, depression, experience emotional and behavioral problems (Centre for Marriage and Families,