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US divorce statistic - one of the highest divorce rates (russia is the highest); 1/3 people that have been
married have been divorced
crude divorce rate - best method of understanding frequency of divorce; number of divorces per 1000
people in the population
refined divorce rate - method of understanding frequency of divorce; number of divorces that occur per
1000 married women 15 and up (in a one year snapshot)
micro level factors of divorce - parental divorce; age at marriage; parental status; nonmarital
childbearing; sex of children; race& ethnicity; education; income; degree of similarity between spouses;
couples ages
intergenerational transmission of divorce - a person's parents divorced makes them more likely to
divorce themselves
children with divorced parents - marry younger, have lower incomes, more likely to be involved in
nonmarital pregnancy, less likely to go to college ----> risk factors for divorce
macro-level factors of divorce - level of socio-economic development; religion; divorce laws; women's
status & employment
level of socio-economic development - macro-level factor; less developed countries have a significantly
lower risk of divorce
religion - macro-level factor; religiousness & the widely practiced religion of the citizens; Roman catholic
forbids divorce
divorce laws - macro-level factor; "no fault divorce"
, no fault divorce - 1960s; type of divorce where the divorcing couple can go before a judge without one
party having to blame the other
women's status and employment - macro-level factor; women being able to support themselves gave
ride to them ending unhappy marriages; more likely to divorce if theyre economically independent
attitudes on divorce - in the past, women/men that were divorced may not have been granted political
office. Today, still negative and people believe that it should be harder to obtain a divorce; younger
adults want divorce to be more restrictive
phases of separation - may occur in only a week; may take months
preseparation phase - couple seriously thinks about separating; the benefits; people considering
separation commonly experience anxiety, sadness, fear, anger and loneliness
early separation phase - begins to face issues like who's going to move out? pay the bills, etc
midseparation phase - realities of daily living set in (maintaining two households, affects on kids);
sometimes couples reconcile simply to avoid these pressures whether or not the problem has been
resolved
late separation phase - really learn to live as two separate people; may file for legal separation; not all
separated couples divorce. may continue to work on problems they had while married and may
reconcile; others may remain separated but dont divorce for financial reasons or religious obligations
legal separation - binding agreement signed by both spouses that provides details about child support
stations of divorce - interrelated emotional, legal, economic, co-parental, community, and psychic
dimensions of divorce, which together attempt to capture the complexity of the divorce experience.
the emotional divorce - stressful to end a marriage because its not planned; shatters dreams;depression
and anxiety
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