World Changes in Divorce PatternsThis book examines trends in divorce throughout the world, comparing previously inaccessible information on Asian and Arab countries and Eastern Europe, as well as data from Latin America, Western Europe, and the Anglo countries over the last four decades. It discusses are how divorce rates in different countries are affected by industrialisation, dictatorship, civic standards for nations, and easier divorce laws; the relations between divorce and such factors as age and class; the meaning of the worldwide rise in cohabitation; and why people are becoming less likely to remarry. |
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age at marriage alimony analysis Anglo countries Arab Australia changes in divorce child support China Chinese cohabitation cohort consensual unions consequence continued couples course court custody decades decline Denmark divorce law divorce patterns divorce rates divorced mothers divorced women drop duration of marriage economic effect Europe European countries example Family Law family patterns fathers fault divorce figures Finland high divorce rates higher divorce households husband Ibid illegitimacy income increase Indonesia industrialization Japan Japanese labor force Latin America Le Divorce legal separation less living marital dissolution married married couples modern mother-headed nations Nordic countries Norway noted number of children number of divorces occurred official older parents past payments Peninsular Malaysia percent percentage of divorces period political population Press problems recent remarry reports rise rural social society Soviet spouses stable Statistics status Sweden Table Taiwan tion traditional trend United Weitzman widespread wife wives World World Revolution young