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In the decades leading up to the 1970s child custody battles were rare, and in most cases the mother of minor children would receive custody. [5] Since the 1970s, as custody laws have been made gender-neutral, contested custody cases have increased as have cases in which the children are placed in the primary custody of the father.
Lenore Weitzman's 1985 book The Divorce Revolution, using data from California in 1977-78, reported that one year after divorce, the standard of living for women declined 73%, compared with an increase of 42% for men. Richard Peterson calls Weitzman's methodology into question, using the same data to calculate a 27% decrease for women and a 10% ...
The DeBoers adopted a newborn boy named Casey in 1994, nine months after returning Anna. [8] In 1999 they divorced, and although they remarried, [9] they divorced again. [8] The Schmidts divorced close to the same time as the DeBoers. [9] They went on to share custody of Anna and their second daughter. [9]
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Davis's story exemplifies some of the perils of "gray divorce," which describes spouses separating after age 50. While overall divorce rates in the U.S. have fallen over the past 20 years, they ...
Controversy arose out of the safe-haven law enacted in Nebraska in July 2008: the Nebraska law in force at the time was interpreted to define a child as anyone under 18, [9] and resulted in the desertion of children older than infants, some as old as teenage years. [10] [11] Under the prior version of the law, at least 35 children were dropped ...
Rising divorce rates for people over 50 are one reason why an increasing number of older Americans are living alone. More Baby Boomers are living alone. One reason why: ‘gray divorce’
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