Research suggests that young adults commonly approve of divorce but still feel anxious about the possibility divorcing themselves due to anticipated emotional and financial repercussions. However, existing research focuses exclusively on heterosexual adults, which is a significant oversight given recent legalization same-sex marriage. As such, we rely primarily qualitative data from an online s...

Expanding on current advancements in divorce and dispute resolution research, an integrative, and process-oriented model is presented. The primary purpose is to investigate how pre-trajectory, trajectory, and arrangement factors are related to post-divorce personal wellbeing. To this end, questionnaire-data were collected in two sessions from a representative sample of Flemish divorcing persons...

Seventy-three married couples were studied in 1983 and 1987. To identify marital processes associated with dissolution, a balance theory of marriage was used to generate 1 variable for dividing couples into regulated and nonregulated groups. For studying the precursors of divorce, a "cascade" model of marital dissolution, which forms a Guttman-like scale, received preliminary support. Compared ...

This article examines how the parental divorce process affects youth substance use at various stages relative to the divorce. With child-fixed-effect models and a baseline period that is long before the divorce, the estimates rely on within-child changes over time. Youth are more likely to use alcohol 2-4 years before a parental divorce. After the divorce, youth have an increased risk of using ...

No-fault statutes changed divorce from an adversarial system pitting victims against victimizers, with the state acting as enforcer of marital norms, to a private decision between unhappily married but legally blameless partners. Divorce reform following no-fault primarily focused on making divorce more fair for the parties involved. Over the last several decades, divorce reform has transitione...

We reconsider the well known Becker Coase (BC ) theorem according to which changes in divorce law should not affect divorce rates. We do that in a context of households that consume public goods in addition to private goods. For the Becker-Coase theorem to hold in this setting, utility must be transferable both within marriage and upon divorce, and the marginal rate of substitution between publ...

This study examined whether the occurrence and timing of parental separation or divorce was related to trajectories of academic grades and mother- and teacher-reported internalizing and externalizing problems. The authors used hierarchical linear models to estimate trajectories for children who did and did not experience their parents' divorce or separation in kindergarten through 10th grade (N...

This paper undertakes a time series analysis of the Japanese divorce rate using annual data over the period 1964 to 2006. One of the key innovations of the paper is to use court decisions on divorce disputes to construct an index that seeks to measure how the probability of a success in a divorce suit has changed over time. The computed index suggests that if it the culpable party lodging the d...