The purpose of this 16-year prospective follow-up study was to investigate the association between parental divorce in childhood and intimate relationship quality in adulthood. The mediating role of psychosocial resources (parent-child relationships at 16 years, self-esteem and social support at 32 years) in this association was also studied. All 16 year olds of one Finnish city completed quest...

Divorce is associated with an increased probability of a depressive episode, but the causation of events remains unclear. Adaptive models of depression propose that depression is a social strategy in part, whereas non-adaptive models tend to propose a diathesis-stress mechanism. We compare an adaptive evolutionary model of depression to three alternative non-adaptive models with respect to thei...

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...

Female Labor Supply and Divorce: New Evidence from Ireland If participation in the labor market helps to secure women’s outside options in the case of divorce/separation, an increase in the perceived risk of marital dissolution may accelerate the increase in female labor supply. This simple prediction has been tested in the literature using time and/or spatial variation in divorce legislation (...

While many models have investigated the role of competitive mate selection processes in human marriage, few have addressed the potential for assortative processes to explain the observed demographics, as well as simultaneously investigating divorce. To explore the possibility that assortative mate selection processes may explain patterns of both marriage and divorce, we developed an agent-based...

Though divorce rates have been more or less stable in Bri-tain over the past decade and the steep increases of earlier years have levelled off, concern about the consequences of divorce for both adults and children has remained high. There is continued interest too in practical responses. Conciliation services are now an established part of the scene, albeit very inadequately supported financia...

This paper examines how job displacement and physical disability suffered by a spouse affects the probability that the person’s marriage ends in divorce. According to the standard economic model of marriage, the arrival of new information about a partner’s earning capacity that an earnings shock conveys might affect the gains that the couple believes it will receive from remaining married. Shoc...

South Korea has a population about fifty million. In 2011, 329,087 couples got married among Korean (1). It was increased about 4.7% compared to annual cases of 2005. Annual number of local marriage was maintained over three hundred thousand from 2005 to 2011. Local divorce was decreased about 10.7% during same period. However, international marriage and divorce with Korean have different aspec...

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...

Over the past 30 years, the legal status of husbands and wives in marriage has undergone major changes with the result that wives are now beginning to have more of an independent legal identity than in the past and, to some extent, more of an equal relationship with their husbands although full equality has not yet been achieved. At the same time, divorce laws and policies have consistently mov...