OBJECTIVE We examine differences across Europe in attitudes towards divorce involving children under the age of 12. We hypothesize that these attitudes are less favourable in countries where poverty among single parent households is common than in countries where such poverty is rare. We also expect that divorce involving young children is more accepted in countries where enrolment in child car...

divorce as a social issue in iran has experienced lots of changes during the previous decades. in the present article, these changes are investigated considering the mode of their social development. to state the diverse dimensions of changes in the social structure of divorce in iran, the theoretical “analytic- realistic” model as one of the most efficient theoretical models has been utilized ...

The decision of whether to divorce a breeding partner between reproductive attempts can significantly affect individual fitness. In this paper, we report that 63% of surviving pairs of long-tailed tits Aegithalos caudatus divorced between years. We examine three likely explanations for the high divorce rate in this cooperative breeder. The 'better option' hypothesis predicts that divorce and re...

The authors prospectively investigated the relation between stressful life events and risk of breast cancer among 10,808 women from the Finnish Twin Cohort. Life events and breast cancer risk factors were assessed by self-administered questionnaire in 1981. A national modification of a standardized life event inventory was used, examining accumulation of life events and individual life events a...

BACKGROUND Despite evidence that divorce has become more prevalent among weaker socioeconomic groups, knowledge about the stratification aspects of divorce in Israel is lacking. Moreover, although scholarly debate recognizes the importance of stratificational positions with respect to divorce, less attention has been given to the interactions between them. OBJECTIVE Our aim is to examine the re...

Does Parental Divorce Affect Adolescents' Cognitive Development? Evidence from Longitudinal Data In this paper we analyse data from the National Education Longitudinal Study of 1988 to investigate whether experiencing parental divorce during adolescence reduces measured cognitive ability. To account for the potential endogeneity of parental divorce we employ a difference-in-differences model th...

Recession may increase divorce through a stress mechanism, or reduce divorce by exacerbating cost barriers or strengthening family bonds. After establishing an individual-level model predicting U.S. women's divorce, the paper tests period effects, and whether unemployment and foreclosures are associated with the odds of divorce using the 2008-2011 American Community Survey. Results show a downw...

this study examines the factors influencing women’s quest of divorce in tehran. the research framework is based on the theory of order (within the family), social capital theory, and matching partnership. research method was survey and the instrument of the study was questionnaires. 239 seeking divorce women and the same number of non-seeking divorce women were given the questionnaires. they we...

this article aims, with a detailed insight into the historical process of khul’ divorce in two phases in arabia before islam and after islam, to discover the creation of successive theories and the evolution of ‘the khul’ divorce institution’ to its current form as supporting iranian legislation. while presenting the views of the jurists, we encountered two streams of thought as regards the dis...