Postdivorce Adjustment in Singapore: Factors, Themes, and Positive Growth Jessica Chan Lai Cheng & Jeffrey E. Pfeifer To cite this article: Jessica Chan Lai Cheng & Jeffrey E. Pfeifer (2015) Postdivorce Adjustment in Singapore: Factors, Themes, and Positive Growth, Journal of Divorce & Remarriage, 56:6, 429-450, DOI: 10.1080/10502556.2015.1058657 To link to this article: http://dx.doi.org/10.10...

As the divorce rate increased through the 1970s, the policy climate for divorce also changed dramatically, raising the question of whether the secular trends in divorce were influenced by these policy changes or vice versa. One such policy change, passed in late 1977 in recognition of falling marriage durations, entitled divorced persons to claim auxiliary Social Security benefits on their ex-s...

The article reveals the concept of self-perception, in self-conscious theory, its components are highlighted. Methods diagnostics, self-perception presented. results obtained course a comparative analysis adolescents situation remarriage parents and from families first marriage described.

Subjects that the research investigated included the housing tenure of divorcing couples; the housing circumstances of the ex-spouses, including the number that lived as independent households and the effect on the number of separate households. Also studied were how many divorcees remained in owneroccupation and was there evidence about whether this involved moves to poorer and presumably chea...

We develop a two-sided matching model with positive sorting. Match quality for each couple is revealed ex post and those with poor draws divorce. We show that full commitment and Nash bargaining mechanisms both yield the same non-contingent intra-household allocations. We then apply our framework to an analysis of changes in divorce settlement laws. Changes in laws governing property division i...

The demographic study of nuptiality in African countries is not very developed and often of secondary interest in a discussion of the proximate determinants of fertility. This paper uses unusual marriage history data to examine divorce and remarriage in rural Malawi. Life table probabilities of divorce range from 40 to 65 percent and are among the highest on the continent. An investigation into...