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Gray divorce rates. While the U.S. has maintained a steady decline in divorce rates, the situation is different for divorce among middle-aged and older adults, also known as gray divorce:. 36% of ...
The road to Reno: A history of divorce in the United States (Greenwood Press, 1977) Chused, Richard H. Private acts in public places: A social history of divorce in the formative era of American family law (U of Pennsylvania Press, 1994) Griswold, Robert L. "The Evolution of the Doctrine of Mental Cruelty in Victorian American Divorce, 1790-1900."
For Lenz, divorce was a new beginning. She could spend more time focusing on her career because she had split custody of her children. Lenz described that as establishing equality.
Divorce laws have changed a great deal over the last few centuries. [10] Many of the grounds for divorce available in the United States today are rooted in the policies instated by early British rule. [11] Following the American Colonies' independence, each settlement generally determined its own acceptable grounds for divorce. [12]
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Over 40% of American children will experience parental divorce or separation during their childhood. [16] In a study of the effect of relocation after a divorce, researchers found that parents relocating far away from each other (with either both moving or one moving) has a long-term effect on children. [17]
Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images Today contributor Jill Martin and Erik Brooks are going their separate ways after two years of marriage, Us Weekly can confirm. Brooks filed divorce papers in ...
In many cases, irreconcilable differences were the original and only grounds for no-fault divorce, such as in California, which enacted America's first purely no-fault divorce law in 1969. [2] California now lists one other possible basis, "permanent legal incapacity to make decisions" (formerly "incurable insanity"), on its divorce petition form.