BACKGROUND The outcome of studies about the experience of parental divorce and its effects on mental and physical health differs, a result possibly caused by the use of different questionnaires and instruments, varying length of time since the divorce and divergent drop-out of participants. AIMS To study the presence of psychiatric records and number of diagnosed somatic and mental healthcare...

For almost a century, anecdotes have suggested that divorce rates decline during recessions. However, until very recently there has been surprisingly little formal empirical evidence on whether such a link exists, let alone its magnitude if it does. Moreover, the anticipated direction of the effect is ambiguous theoretically. Although previous studies have concluded that individual job loss des...

In this study relationships between divorce and trust variables were examined. Specifically, marital status (married, divorced) was compared against degree of trust in government, technology, romantic relationships, family, and school. The study showed statistical significance (p < .05) in terms of the relationship between marital status and romantic relationships. However, no other outcomes we...

Divorce as well as the complex post-marital family situation is often associated with negative child outcomes like lower academic achievement, reduced psychological wellbeing and an increased risk of problematic behaviour. Although this negative impact on children is replicated in many empirical studies, other research finds in contrast that children of divorce are not always worse off than chi...

OBJECTIVE To construct an index that represents the general level of social problems among Canadian provinces and territories. METHOD Factor weights were used to combine provincial and territorial rates for homicide, attempted murder, assault, sexual assault, robbery, divorce, suicide, and alcoholism into a single Social Problem Index. RESULTS The resulting index demonstrated strong positiv...

Although many studies examine the link between parental divorce and child well-being, some theories of the effects of divorce suggest that the negative associations should have declined over time. However, few studies have examined the extent to which the associations have remained stable over time. Using data from two British cohorts, we analyse both shorterand longer-term outcomes of children...

In a series of papers, William J. Goode argued that the relationship between modernization and the class composition of divorce is inverse. Starting from his hypothesis, we examine the relationship between female education and the risk of divorce over time in 17 countries. We expect that the relationship differs across countries and across time, so that women with higher education have a higher...

This article studies the influence of women’s work on the risk of divorce, using data from the Netherlands. We examine economic interpretations of the work effect by disentangling the work effect into five dimensions: (a) the intensity of wife’s work, (b) the status of wife’s work, (c) potential labour market success, (d) relative labour market success (vis-à-vis the husband), and (e) the divis...

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