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Children of homeowners are more likely to become homeowners themselves, than are children whose parents live in rental accommodation. In this paper we set out to investigate whether and to what extent this intergenerational transmission of homeownership is dependent on parental divorce. In times in which parental support is believed to have become an important resource for entering the housing market, it is important to know whether children of divorced parents are in even more need of such support, and to what extent divorced parents are capable of providing such support. Event history analysis on life-course data from the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS) data shows that the intergenerational transmission of homeownership is stronger for children of divorced parents, suggesting that children of divorced parents are more in need of direct parental assistance due to the socio-economic …