BACKGROUND Several studies have reported an increase in risk behaviors among adolescents after experience of parental divorce. The aim of the study was to investigate whether parental divorce is associated with risk behavior among adolescents independent of mental health problems, first when early divorce was experienced, and second after experience of late parental divorce. METHOD One prospe...

Given that divorce often represents a high-stakes income gamble, we ask how individual levels of risk tolerance affect the decision to divorce. We extend the orthodox divorce model by assuming that individuals are risk averse, that marriage is risky, and that divorce is even riskier. The model predicts that conditional on the expected gains to marriage and divorce, the probability of divorce in...

This article explores the remarkable shift in marriage and divorce practices that has occurred in the last third of this century in the United States. Initially, information is presented on trends in divorce and remarriage; commonalities and differences between family patterns in the United States and in other industrialized nations are discussed. The author then identifies some of the factors ...

Although divorces place millions of women from poor countries into hardship, we know little about this issue and its causes. This paper shows that the lack of children is a leading cause for divorce. We use twins and gender of firstborns as instruments to estimate the effect of the number of children and the existence of a son on mother’ marital statuses. The 2009 Vietnam Population Census show...

BACKGROUND Former studies have shown increased mental health problems in adolescents after parental divorce all over the Western world. We wanted to see if that still is the case in Norway today when divorce turns to be more and more common. METHODS In a prospective study design, two samples were constituted, adolescents at a baseline survey in 2001/02 (n = 2422) and those at follow-up in 200...

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...

This article explores to what extent married middle-aged individuals in Europe are governed by the risk of experiencing divorce, when shaping their physical appearance. The main result is that divorce risks, proxied by national divorce rates, are negatively connected to body mass index (BMI) among married individuals but unrelated to BMI among singles. Hence, it seems that married people in soc...

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 ...