High school students in China who have experienced parental divorce may face significant psychological and life challenges. The purpose of this study is to explore understand the impact on well-being among Chinese high students. This qualitative adopted a descriptive phenomenological approach. A total eight participants were selected through purposive sampling technique Qinghai Province, China....

This analysis extends H. Elizabeth Peters’ “Marriage and Divorce: Information Constraints and Private Contracting” (1986). Peters introduced two models of marital bargaining. We argue those models may be viewed as special cases of a single, threedimensional framework. The third dimension represents the transaction costs of intramarital exchange. The transaction-cost model illustrates that chang...

Divorce numbers European countries such as Spain, Portugal, Luxembourg, the Czech Republic and Hungary have divorce rates (= number of divorces as a % of number of marriages in a given year) higher than 60%. Belgium has the highest rate at 70%. The yearly number of divorces per 1000 of population tends to be around 2 in European countries. Business Insider’s 2014 mapping of worldwide divorce ra...

This paper examines the ecological determinants of contemporary Japanese divorce rates on the prefectural level. LISREL and computer-generated graphics are the analytic methods used. The aggregate level of analysis demands the use of the ecological model which posits that demographic changes, economic activities, migration patterns, and the level of urbanization are significant predictors of di...

Using time diary data from the mid-1970s, the relationship between unilateral divorce and couple-level time allocation is estimated. Married women in states with unilateral divorce are found to be spending less time in household production and core housework than those in states without unilateral divorce, and married men are found to be doing a greater share of housework within families. This ...

Comparative studies of children from divorced and intact families consistently find that children of divorced marriages have more shortand long-term psychological and social issues than children from intact marriages. This has led to the need for an evaluation of our divorce culture. The purpose of this research is to analyze the general population’s attitudes on divorce involving children by g...

This study aims to explain grandmother's parenting and its implications for children's social-emotional behavior in Tenembak Lang-Lang Village, Southeast Aceh Regency. Factors that cause children be cared by grandmothers are parents who work outside, widows or widowers due death divorce. uses a qualitative approach with the research subject of 5 grandmothers. Data were collected means observati...

Divorce represents the dissolution of a social tie, but it is also possible that attitudes about divorce flow across social ties. To explore how social networks influence divorce and vice versa, we exploit a longitudinal data set from the long-running Framingham Heart Study. The results suggest that divorce can spread between friends. Clusters of divorces extend to two degrees of separation in ...