Girls’ strain on parents

PARENTS of teenage daughters may be more likely to divorce than those of teen boys, according to research from the University of Melbourne.

A paper to be released today has analysed data collected on more than two million Dutch marriages between 1995 and 2015 along with a household survey of US families.

The figures showed parents with teen daughters were 5 per cent more likely to divorce than those with male children in the same age range.

“It would be way too much at this stage to suggest that this is indeed the link, but the evidence does suggest that issues may be important for the divorce disparity,” Jan Kabatek said.