A study of boys and girls whose mothers later had children with another man found they were 65% more likely to have used drugs by age 15 than those who had only full siblings. They were more than twice as likely to have sex by their mid-teens. As children tend to live with their mother after a separation, the Iowa State University researchers focused on those whose mothers went on to have families with different men.
As older kids are shoved aside in favor of the new little ones, they are increasingly susceptible to the allure of a quick and easy escape from reality through the use of drugs; the promise of love in a sexual relationship; or the mind-numbing effects of pornography. This inevitably leads to a cycle of abuse that is plainly evident in the phenomena of porn addiction as the cause for the majority of divorces. In fact, more divorce attorneys are seeing pornography as a reason for divorce. They say the increased availability of porn on the internet is the main cause for this increase. Patrick F. Fagan, senior fellow and director of the Center for Research on Marriage and Religion, calls pornography a “quiet family killer.” He says it contributes to infidelity. According to his research, 56% of divorces were because of a spouse's addiction to porn. The sickness feeds upon itself: as children from broken homes, adopt destructive behaviors, get married (or shack-up; play house,) have children, get divorced, and then their children seek solace in the same hell that their hapless parents did.