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| a person alleges that his/her spouse is responsible for the failed marriage through actions such as adultery, cruel treatment, habitual drunkennes, and desertion |
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| couple can divorce without either having to accuse the other or prove the other responsible for the failure of their marriage |
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1 - emotional - "Disengage"
2 - legal
3 - economic
4 - coparental
5 - community
6 - psychic - feeling like a separate individual |
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- more than 10% of the population
- "if you are a reasonably well-educated person w/ a decent income, come from an intact family and are religious, & marry after age 25 w/out having a baby first, chances are low indeed" |
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| # of divorces/# of marriages each year |
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# of divorces in a given year per 1,000 people in the population
- 3.5/1000
[but counting per 1,000 includes children, unmarried, etc.] |
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# of divorces that occur each year per 1,000 marriages
- 16.7 divorces per 1,000 marriages |
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allows researchers to estimate how many new marriages will end in divorce
- 35% to 45% |
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| societal factors affecting divorce |
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1 - changed nature of the family
2 - social integration
3 - individualistic cultural values |
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| demographic factors affecting divorce |
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1 - employment status [unemployment, low-level employment, hours worked]
2 - income
3 - educational level
4 - ethnicity
5 - religion |
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| life course factors affecting divorce |
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1 - age at time of marriage - most consistent predictor [divorce: 50% under 18, 40% under 20, 25% over 25]
2 - premarital pregnancy and childbirth
3 - cohabitation
4 - remarriage
5 - intergenerational transmission |
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| intergenerational transmission |
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- daughters of divorce + likely to be "prodivorce" than sons
- postdivorce conflict has less effect on daughters |
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| family processes factors affecting divorce |
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1 - marital happiness
2 - children [couples w/ children divorce less than couples w/out]
3 - marital problems [most common: infidelity, incompatibility, substance use, growing apart, personality problems, lack of comm, abuse] |
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process of separation
- initiators & partners
- the new self: separation distress & postdivorce identity
- establishing postdivorce identity [transition and recovery]
- dating again |
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| economic consequences of divorce |
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- impoverishing women & children
1 - alimony & child support
2 - employment [opportunities for women constrained by children] |
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| noneconomic consequences of divorce |
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- more psychological distress, lower well-being, more negative life events
- 9x rate of depression for separated/divorced men
- increases in heavy drinking
- but those in low-quality marriages worse off than those who divorce |
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- about 1 in every 5 families is a single-parent
- more than half of all children will become step-children |
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| 3 stages of divorce for children |
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1 - initial stage - stressful, agitated
2 - transition stage - about a year after separation, restructuring
3 - restabilization stage - by end of five years |
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| developmental tasks of divorce for children |
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1 - acknowledging parental separation
2 - disengaging from parental conflicts
3 - resolving loss
4 - resolving anger and self-blame
5 - accepting the finality of divorce
6 - achieving realistic expectations for later relationship success |
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| why is custody granted to mothers in 90% of cases? |
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1 - women usually prefer custody, and men do not
2 - giving custody to women is traditional
3 - law reflects a bias that assumes women are naturally better able to care for children |
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