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Abstract enThe purpose of this study was to investigate the school success and problems of primary education second stage students with divorced and intact families. Our sample was consisted of 431 (220 female and 211 male) students attending 6th, 7th, 8th, grade among 16 primary schools in Kayseri city center. In this sample, 214 students had divorced families and 217 students had intact families. In order to collect data for the research; “Personal Information Form” was used to determine grade point average and sosyodemographic traits of the students; “Problem Check List” was used to determine the problem situations of the students. To analysis data, t test for independent samples, one way Anova, Chi-Square are used. The significance level was accepted as p<.05 in this study. The results indicate that there were significant differences in school success with respect to family structure (divorced-intact family), grade level, custodial parent’s remarriage, frequency of contact with noncustodial parent. However, there were no significant effect of gender of the student, which parent the student stays after the divorce and duration elapsed after the divorce on the student’s school success. The results also indicate that the students from divorced families implied higher number of problem situations than the students from intact families especially for internalization problems

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