Family is the oldest social organization that provides an important role in the mental health of the community. Disruption or failure of the family can be defined as the breakdown of family unit or the failure to build social roles due to the failure or inability of one or more family members in performing their roles [1]. Psychologists believe that the health of the family can be achieved by e...

this study aims to offer a sociological explanation of influential factors on the rate of tendency toward divorce in kermanshah city. a combination of homogamy theory, exchange theory, and network theory is used as the theoretical framework of the study. the study has been conducted via survey method and data is collected through questionnaire and interview. the statistical sample of study cons...

this paper studies the factors influencing divorce rate across the provinces of iran with an emphasis on economic factors, particularly unemployment and inflation. in the literature review, economic as well as psychology literature has been dealt with. to measure the impact of economic factors on divorce rate, unemployment and inflation variables have been examined. the rates of urbanization an...

Over the past two decades, more than one million children each year have experienced a family divorce, and the proportion of children affected by divorce is expected to grow substantially in the twenty-first century. Most of these children experience significant changes in their living arrangements, and the poverty rate for children of divorce is about twice the rate for all children in the Uni...

extractin any era to the present era, risk of changes of family and their adverse effects are not studied and also these adverse effects are now more than any time. statistics show that each year the number of divorce will increase and there is the risk for many families. so, after the second world war ii the rate of divorce is not lower from average of 400,000 cases. the result of research in ...

United but (Un-)Equal: Human Capital, Probability of Divorce and the Marriage Contract * This paper studies how the risk of divorce affects the human capital decisions of a young couple. We consider a setting where complete specialization (one of the spouses uses up all the education resources) is optimal with no divorce risk. Symmetry in education (both spouses receive an equal amount of educa...

OBJECTIVES To review important research of the past decade in divorce, marital conflict, and children's adjustment and to describe newer divorce interventions. METHOD Key empirical studies from 1990 to 1999 were surveyed regarding the impact of marital conflict, parental violence, and divorce on the psychological adjustment of children, adolescents, and young adults. RESULTS Recent studies ...

Demographic and psychological studies show that children and adults from divorced families utilise professional counselling two to three times more frequently than members coming from intact families to cope with problems in connection with separation and divorce. Research on divorce has well documented the consequences of separation and divorce for children and parents (Amato & Booth, 1997; Ft...

The association between marital status and coronary artery disease (CAD) is supported by numerous epidemiological studies. While divorce may have an adverse effect on cardiac outcomes, the relationship between divorce and severe CAD is unclear. We conducted a multicenter, observational study of consecutive patients undergoing coronary angiography during the period between April 1, 2013, and Mar...

Over the past quarter-century, many covariates of divorce have been identified. However, the extent to which the effects of these covariates remain constant across time is not known. In this article, I examine the stability of the effects of a wide range of divorce covariates using a pooled sample of data taken from five rounds of the National Survey of Family Growth. This sample includes consi...