Divorce

  • Children Coping with Divorce
    August 5, 2009 | comments: 0
    A recent study reports that the coping skills of children of divorced parents can depend largely on how the parents react to the situation. Divorce affects children in many different ways and children typically experience varied feelings and emotions, but the feelings depend mostly on the... Read More

  • Divorce Hurts Your Health
    July 30, 2009 | comments: 0
    A recent study of people aged 51 to 61 by Professor Linda Waite of the University of Chicago has shown that the experience of divorce has specific long-term negative effects on physical health. According to the study, both divorce and the subsequent life of a widow or widower can generate... Read More

  • World’s Shortest Marriage
    June 30, 2009 | comments: 0
    Even though the overall divorce rate in the United States hovers near 50% by some estimations, the number seems small in comparison to the stats for a Polish couple in Hannover, Germany who recently created their own personal divorce rate of 100%. The deed was accomplished in less than 24... Read More

  • Jon & Kate Announce Divorce...or the Affect of Raising Children on Marital Stability
    June 23, 2009 | comments: 0
    Television reality show stars Jon and Kate Gosselin, parents of twins and sextuplets, announced during an episode  (titled “Houses and Big Changes”) of their show on Monday night that they were separating after 10 years of marriage. Divorce papers were filed Monday... Read More

  • Iranian Divorce Rate May Hit 100%
    May 27, 2009 | comments: 0
    Although Iran is not found on current lists of countries with high divorce rates, it seems the country may possibly have the highest divorce rate in the world today. A study released by a research group at Shahid Beheshti University in Tehran earlier this month reports that the divorce... Read More

  • Divorce Still Morally OK
    May 20, 2009 | comments: 0
    According to the results of the Gallup Poll’s annual Moral Acceptability poll completed on May 10, 2009, the moral views of most Americans have changed very little in the last year. The poll found that the morals of the nation might have shifted ever-so-slightly to the right, but... Read More