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The introduction of no-fault divorce led to a rise in divorce rates in the United States during the 1970s. [16] The National Center for Health Statistics reported that from 1975 to 1988 in the US, in families with children present, wives filed for divorce in approximately two-thirds of cases.
Divorces among middle-aged and elderly people pose a higher financial risk to women.. In stark contrast to reports indicating that divorce rates among young adults are on the decline, researchers ...
Ohio: Married women are given the right to own (but not control) property in their own name. [4] Michigan: Married women are given the right to own and manage property in their own name during the incapacity of their spouse. [4] 1848. New York: Married Women's Property Act grants married women separate economy. [12]
This measures the number of divorces per 1,000 women married to men, so that all unmarried persons are left out of the calculation. [1] For example, if that same city of 10,000 people has 3,000 married women, and 30 couples divorce in one year, then the refined divorce rate is 10 divorces per 1,000 married women.
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Divorce law reform had long been one of Herbert's "small causes", for which he agitated in the pages of Punch. His first attempt to bring this particular cause to a broader audience was a play, The White Witch (1924), concerning a couple in a divorce suit who both protest that they had not committed adultery. The play was a failure, and closed ...
With low rates of insured women and high rates of female homicide, Oklahoma was ranked the worst state for women in a recent study from WalletHub. With low rates of insured women and high rates of ...
South Africa: The Women's Enfranchisement Act, 1930, was an act of the Parliament of South Africa which granted white women aged 21 and older the right to run for office. 1931 United States, Michigan: A 1931 law criminalized abortion in Michigan except when the mother's life was in danger.