Ever since an economic study in 2003 revealed that couples with a daughter are five percent more likely to divorce – and that the risk for divorce goes up with each additional daughter – psychologists have been trying to explain the reason for the phenomenon. Now, one expert says the…
A new study published in the October issue of the Journal of Family Issues says that when women are the breadwinners in their family, they are almost 40 percent more likely to get a divorce than lower income women. Researchers at Western Washington University studied 2,500 women who were married…
The newlywed husband of a Westchester, N.Y. woman who lied about having leukemia to get a free wedding dress and honeymoon has filed for divorce. Michael O’Connell told the New York Daily News that he is “disgusted and outraged” to discover that his bride, Jessica Vega, lied about having terminal…
Two Orlando men charged with felony interference with custody of a child have been sentenced to one day in jail with credit for time served, 100 hours of community service and two years of probation following their entry of a plea of no contest. Christopher Stokes and Richard Douglas abducted…
“Gray divorce” – the new term given to divorces that occur after 20 or more years of marriage – is on the rise in the U.S. and Baby Boomers are leading the way, according to a recent article in the Sacramento Bee. The divorce rate among those born between 1946…
A new study of relationships has found that if a woman earns more money than a man, both will be more likely to cheat. Cornell graduate student Christin Munsch studied the results of a national survey, tracking 9,000 people between the ages of 17 and 27. She found that men…
A new University of Illinois study of the way child custody evaluators make their decisions says courts that apply a one-size-fits-all model to child custody cases are potentially endangering mothers and children. The study found that child custody evaluator’s beliefs generally fall into two categories: one category that believes conflict…
According to an article at WomensENews.org, advocates for women’s financial security say that the new financial overhaul legislation passed last month did nothing to reform a 2005 bankruptcy law they say benefits credit card companies and harms single mothers. The advocates say that most divorced men who file Chapter 13…
A New York Times columnist calls it “divorce porn” – married people’s fascination with the lives of the divorced. In his Family Matters column for the Times, Bruce Feiler commented on the dichotomy of divorce in America these days: while the divorce rate is the lowest it’s been in three…
Women who are over the age of 50 and earning more than $100,000 a year are much more likely to divorce than men of the same age and income category. A U.S. Census Bureau study – 2009 America’s Families and Living Arrangements – shows that 11.85 percent of American women…