Divorce might not be all that bad for kids. It's what happens afterwards that can hurt them, according to an Ohio State researcher.

Yongmin Sun found that what really can affect kids is an unstable family situation -- especially if those family changes occur during the teen years. Shifting family dynamics -- a new step-parent, siblings, moves -- resulted in less education, occupational prestige and income for those teens later in life.

"A stabilized post-divorce family environment is clearly helpful for children, particularly for adolescents, such as those we studied, because stability allows children to focus on their own developmental needs rather than on continual family crises," Sun said in this report.

I guess when a whole lot of change is happening on the inside, it helps to keep things around you pretty much the same.

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