Despite the recent slew of celebrity breakups that seem to revolve around cheating, for most Americans, the secrets kept in a marriage are not about affairs, but instead about money. Spending habits are a touchy subject among people who live together. Each partner generally has strong ideas about how the money should be spent, and often those ideas are conflicting.…
Many people who are going through a divorce wonder how they got to where they are and whether or not their problems were common. When two people enter into a marriage, they expect that there will be times of “worse.” Often, these times revolve around other stresses, such as a job loss, ill parent or difficult child. What many do…
As much as we study divorce , there remains a large component that we don’t understand. What factors have the most influence over a relationship? When does the breaking point occur? Although these following “strange facts” about divorce won’t answer any of these questions, they might raise a few more! Divorce Fact 1: Couples who live in “red states” (states…
As more and more users join facebook and become part of the social networking system, more and more mistakes are being made. Most of the time when we are using the internet, we know what is private and what is appropriate. Sometimes, however, social networking sites begin to seems more like diaries and people forget that their postings and pictures…
Everyone knows that divorce rates in the United States are incredibly high, and as many as 50% of marriages end in divorce these days. Social scientists have conducted studies to determine which factors influence divorce rates. One factor is the job or career of each spouse. The jobs with the highest divorce rates are: 1. Choreographers/Dancers 2. Bartenders 3. Masseuses…
Since a 2003 study revealed that more divorces occur within families who have female children, family experts have been struggling to figure out why. According to the UCLA study, parents are 5% more likely to divorce if they have girls. The gap widens to 10% if there are three girl children. The statistics work in reverse as well – unwed…