Decline in Rate of Divorce and Separation Filings in Denmark in 2020 Compared with Previous Years

The radical changes to everyday life brought on by the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic and closure of nonfamily social spheres in particular may have impacted marriage dynamics. author provides evidence monthly rates initiation divorce separation filings Denmark for period from 2016 2020 examine how filing behavior changed during compared with four previous years. Because precedes divorce, reflect more precisely temporal dynamic initiation. Rates declined lowest level across 2020. On average, were 7 percent lower than 20 rates. There is little indication that COVID-19 had an immediate influence dynamics, although rate was depressed lockdown periods.