Children of Divorced Less Likely to Go to College, Study Says

Policies often vary for calculating eligibility for financial aid among such applicants

By Ben Gose

When Jennifer L. Gerner started teaching a course on family policy at Cornell University in 1992, she asked her students to write short autobiographies. While reading those essays, she was struck by a puzzling pattern: Mom and Dad were almost always...

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