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A comparison of Divorce Laws and Rates in the United
States and Europe
Statistics on:
Divorce Rates and Marriage Rates
--and Reasons for Increase in Divorce
--in Families With Children
--Non-U.S. Divorce Rates
--Correlations of Divorce rates with other factors
(e.g. religion, occupation, race, region)
--Statistics
on Religion, Divorce and Adultery x
--Divorce in International/Interracial Marriages
--Reconciliation after Separation
Your Real Chance of Divorce
Causes of Divorce
Does Divorce Succeed?
Divorce Litigation
Before No-Fault was Introduced
Does divorce reduce children's exposure to family
conflict?
Divorce and Domestic Violence
Social Costs and Direct Costs of Divorce
With This Ring
Effects on Divorced People:
--Economic
--General Happiness
--Health, Physical and Mental
--Effects on Black Community
Children of Divorce and:
--All kinds of problems
--Stepfamilies
--Child Abuse
--Poverty
--Crime (incl. Rape
statistics)
--Popularity and Social Skills
--Psychological, psychiatric, behavioral problems
and suicide
--Children of divorce becoming teen moms, single
moms
--Educational achievement
--Physical Health
--African American Children
--Discussion of Constance Ahrons' We're
Still Family
Polls
Statistics
and Studies on Adultery
Military Divorce Statistics
Illegitimate Births
Other Divorce Statistics Collections on the web:
Fact Sheet on
Divorce in America by Glenn Stanton includes numbers of divorced people
in U.S., several effects of divorce on adults and children.
Facts About Marital Distress
and Divorce by Scott M. Stanley & Howard J. Markman. Divorce rates,
marital conflict, predicting and projecting divorce, effects of divorce
and marriage, lots of references to studies.
Why Marriage
Matters: Twenty-One Conclusions from the Social Sciences (2002)
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"...Smoking is 'clearly more common among lone parents than among married
parents, even after adjusting for economic difficulties, socioeconomic status,
and social relations.' Thus, while only 15% of married mothers in this study
smoked, 26% of single mothers did. Among fathers, 32% of the married fathers
in the study smoked, compared to 48% of single fathers...."
...
"...Adjusting for economic difficulties did not level off the association
between smoking and lone parenthood."
...
"The authors of the new study worry that while 'social relations are
generally considered positive to health,' an unhealthy social pattern seems
dominant within the social relations of single parents. 'Particularly among
lone parents,' the researchers remark, 'smoking seems to be an important
part of social life.' That is, the 'social networks' of single parents actually
appear 'to encourage smoking.' The social networks of married parents, on
the other hand, do not foster such unhealthy habits.
...
'...Low income young people respond to incentives, particularly when those
incentives are buttressed by clear messages from society at large.'
(Source: Paul Offner, "Welfare Reform and Teenage Girls," Social
Science Quarterly 86 [June 2005]: 306-322.)
The Family in America: New Research. October 2005.
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Joan R. Kahn and Kathryn A. London, "Premarital Sex and the Risk of
Divorce," Journal of Marriage and the Family 53 (1991): 845-855.
Cf. Ingrid Waldron, Christopher C. Weiss, and Mary Elizabeth Hughes, "marital
Status Effects on Health: Are There Differences Between Never-Married Women
and Divorced and Separated Women?" Social Science & Medicine
45 (1997): 1387-1397
I.M.A. Joung et al., "Health Behaviors Explain Part of the Difference
in Self-Reported Health Associated with Partner/Marital States in the Netherlands,"
Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 49 (1995): 482-488
Peggy A. Thoits, "Gender and Marital Status Difference in Control and
Distress: Common Stress versus Unique Stress Explanations," Journal
of Health and Social Behavior 28 (1987): 7-22
Janet Wilmoth and Gregor Koso, "does Marital History Matter? Marital
Status and Wealth Outcomes Among Preretirement Adults," Journal
of Marriage and Family 64 (2002): 254-268
Karen F. Parker and Tracy Johns, "Urban Disadvantage and Types of Race-Specific
Homicide: Assessing the Diversity in Family Structures in the Urban Context,"
Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency 39 (2002): 277-303.
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Chandigarh, Newsline
Friday, November 04, 2005
http://cities.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=155513
Matrimonial malaise: Till divorce do us part
Raghav Ohri
Chandigarh, November 3: And more marriages than ever before are ending in
divorce in the city.
In 1997, only 216 cases of divorce were filed by residents in the district
courts here; in the fifth year of the new millennium, the number will reach
900 and may just touch a thousand.
The jump in the number of divorces has come recently, with statistics showing
that the number has doubled in the last three years alone.
One reason is that divorces...are easier to make. ... With new amendments
being made in the Hindu Marriage Act (HMA), seeking a divorce has become
simpler. ... The latest amendment was made in 2003. It allowed a petitioner
to seek divorce from the place where he/she last lived, unlike earlier when
divorce had to be sought either from the place where the couple last lived
together or the place where the wedding took place.
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*Germany
Germany's divorce rate has risen beyond the 200,000-a-year mark, thus
affecting over 400,000 spouses and 170,000 school children.
>From "Divorce at Germany's Newsstands", Deutsche Welle, 9/29/05
<http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,1564,1725188,00.html>
The Family in America: New Research, part of the John L. Swan
Library of Family & Culture
September 2005
Editor: Allan Carlson
The Howard Center, Rockford, IL
"Not All There--- Among the children struggling with intellectual disabilities,
a disproportionate number must do so without a father. That fatherless cildren
are especially vulnerable to mild to moderate intellectual disability stands
out as one of the chief findings of a study recently published in Social
Science & Medicine by a team of researchers at the University of
Western Australia.
Examining nine years of data for Western Australians with and without intellectual
disabilities, the authors of the new study underscore the importance of
maternal marital status as a statistical predictor of children's intellectual
status: 'Women who had never married (O[dds] R[atio] =2.18) and women who
were widowed, divorced, or separated (O[dds] R[atio] = 2.40] were more likely
to have a child with a mild-moderate I[ntellectual]D[isability] than those
who were married.'
The Western Australian scholars acknowledge that 'marital status has not
always been reported in previous studies' of children's intellectual disability.
However, they stress that 'the increased risk for midl-moderate I[ntellectual]D[isability]
persisted in the logistic regression model' that accounted for variations
in social, economic, and ethnic backgrounds. Understandably, the researchers
view their 'findings of an elevated likelihood of mild-moderate I[ntellectual]D[isability]
with sole parent status' in the contect of 'higher levels of social disadvantage.'<Source:
Helen Lenard et al., "Association of sociodemographic characteristics
of children with intellectual disability in Western Australia,"
Social Science & Medicine 60 [2005]:1499-1513.)>...
...Talking Turkey--- The harm that parental divorce visits upon children
largely transcends cultural differences. So suggests a Turkish scholar in
a recent analytical comparison of studies on parental divorce conducted
in Western countries (including the United States). Noting that Turkey has
witnessed 'a marked increase in the divorce rate' in recent years, especially
in urban areas, psychologist Dilek Sirvanli-Ozen of Okan University in Instanbul
copmares Turkish studies of the impact of parental divorce with those conducted
in Western countries with markedly different cultural backgrounds. It is
largely the same dark picture that Sirvanli-Okan sees in both sets of studies...
..Thus, when Turkish studies reveal that children whose parents divorce
suffer from 'more psychological problems' achieve less 'academic success,'
and develop 'more fearful attachment styles' than peers from inact families,
these findings fit all too well in 'a general assessment' based on research
around the globe. In summing up the 'general' international pattern, Sirvanli-Ozen
highlights disturbing 'deficits' documented in the lives of children affected
by parental divorce: 'anxiety, depression, phobia, and irregularities in
eating and sleeping...negative attitudes towards marriage and other relationships...a
decline in self-esteem...a decrease in the acceptance/interest the children
perceive from their parents...and a tendency to develop insecure attachment
styles.' ...<Source: Dilke Sirvanli-Ozen, "Impacts of Divorce
on the Behavior and Adjustment Problems, Parenting Styles, and Attachment
Styles of Children: Literature Review Including Turkish Studies,"
Journal of Divorce & Remarriage 42.3/4 [2005]: 127-146.) ..."
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