A new study confirms a strong correlation between parental divorce and a wide range of negative child outcomes.

The authors from Austria, Germany and the UK published their work in the Journal of Public Economics.

They found that boys have lower levels of educational attainment, worse labour market outcomes and are more likely to die early.

They reported that girls also have lower levels of educational attainment, and they are also more likely to have children at an early age, but lose less in terms of employment.