According to a study by the Marriage Foundation (MF), nearly half the children in Britain will not be living with both biological parents by the time they are 14 years of age, Breitbart reports.

MF came to this conclusion after analyzing the living arrangements of firstborn children available through the Millennium Cohort Study.

Its research determined that 46% of children were no longer living with both biological parents by the time they reached their fourteenth birthday.

However, there was a noticeable difference for those kids with married parents versus those whose parents were living together.

In 70% of the cases, the separation was due to the breakdown of couples who were living together and 30% was due to the breakup of married couples.

MF also found that for those 14-year-olds who were still living with both biological parents, 84% were in homes where the couple was married and only 16% were in homes where their parents were living together.

READ: Death of Family: Half of Children Not Living With Both Parents by 14

By the way here are a few studies, revealing the impact of broken homes on children:

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