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A study from 2011 looking at 1,786 men and 2,068 women in their first marriages found that separations that were self-initiated or jointly initiated had less severe mental (and physical) health ...
Divorce can affect both the people getting divorced and any children they may have in both the short and long term. After a divorce, the couple often experiences effects including decreased levels of happiness, [1] a change in economic status, and emotional problems. The effects on children can include academic, behavioral, and psychological ...
These have included the effects that marriage has on individual liberty, equality between the sexes, the relationship between marriage and violence, philosophical questions about how much control can a government have over its population, the amount of control a person has over another, the financial risk when measured against alternatives and ...
Studies have associated family disruption to delinquency and drug use. According to a study conducted in 1999 by the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) that studied the relationship between family types and levels of delinquency/drug use, the greater number of times children live through a divorce, the more delinquent they become. [5]
Typically, divorces at this age will negatively impact women more than men in heterosexual relationships, the economic effects in particular are reportedly “less severe” for men.
Social scientist V. C. McLoyd states that father absence covaries with other relevant family characteristics such as the lack of an income from a male adult, the absence of a second adult, and the lack of support from a second extended family system and conclude that it is the negative effects of poverty, and not the absence of a father, that ...
Men who spent $2,000-$4,000 on an engagement ring were 1.3 times more likely to end up separated. And if the wedding cost $20,000 or more, women were 3.5 times more likely to get divorced.
Both positive and negative outcomes should be given equal time and discussion to give it a more balanced and realistic point-of-view, perhaps by dividing the article into sections on "positive effects" and "negative effects". —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.172.66.85 11:14, 23 July 2008 (UTC)