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1
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Why study divorce?

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Common
For every 2 couples that get married, one will get divorced
Census, Married couples no longer a majority of AM. households
Stressful
Functional

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Why is it important to study divorcing families for more than 2-3 years?

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Need enough time to distinguish between short/long term effects

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Why is it important to have a control group? Mavis Hetherington’s Studies

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Cannot distinguish between problems common to all families and problems unique to divorce.

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What happened to experimental and control groups over time? Mavis Hetherington’s Studies

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Married group divorced and divorce group remarried

Families are not static

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Myth 1: Divorce only has two outcomes: Win or Lose

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Divorce is complex
People adjust in different ways, changes over time
Enhanced: 20% successful work, parenting
Competent Loners: 10% emotionally self sustaining
Good Enough: 40% repeat mistakes because of speed bump in the road
Remaining 30% split
Seekers: remarry quickly
Libertines: want freedom
Defeated: depressed, substance abusers, no purpose

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Myth 2: Children always lose out after divorce

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short run: yes, brutally painful
Long run: ?
Majority look back at divorce as painful but most sucessful

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Myth 3: Pathways following divorce are fixed and unchanging

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Experience can be offset by positive experience
defeated to good enough, or good enough to enhanced
Never predetermined, influence our own destiny

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Myth 4: Men are the big winners in divorce

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Popular press- emotionally men do better
Marry younger “trophy wives”
In reality: Women do better less pining, moping, feeling sorry for self
More women are in poverty post divorce

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Myth 5: Absence of father and consequent poverty are the two greatest risks to children

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engaged and competent father great but physical presence is not enough

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Myth 6: death and divorce produce similar results in children

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No. Conflict at the end of marriage is devastating
Attitudes and behaviors of divorced moms and dads idealize image of dead parent to kids, divorce belittle other parent to kids.
Same in only producing grief, sadness

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Myth 7: The longer your marriage lasts, the better it is

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There are people who stay married but hate each other

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Myth 8: The rise in divorce means we don’t like marriage

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people are postponing marriage but many still do it. Remarriages 1/2 of all marriages each year, we do it a lot

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Myth 9: Divorce is a recent problem

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First self-help book about divorce in 1859 First divorce: 1639

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Myth 10: Strict laws curb divorce

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Do they work well for abortion, prostitution, prohibition, drugs, external restrictions had little effect

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Myth 11: Divorce rates are skyrocketing

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Divorce rates have been stable between 40-50% since the 1980s.
What is skyrocketing, non-marital child birth and cohabitation social cohabitation and causal families

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Myth 12:

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Only heterosexual parents can raise healthy children

No research supports this myth

17
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Emotional Marital Bank Account

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Deposits: supportive comments and good will, kindness and emotional support
Withdrawals: acts of contempt, hostile criticism, disengagement

18
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Common patterns in marriage

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First four years: romance fades, marital satisfaction declines then levels out
Declines again 7-8 years (7 year itch)
Satisfaction recovers in middle age when children leave

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Types of Marriage: Unstable

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Pursuer-Distancer 
MOST COMMON 
DIVORCE PRONE 
80% pursuer is wife (brings up problems/feelings) other ignores 
Flooding for men 
-get emotionally aroused more quickly 
-afraid of losing emotional control
20
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Who files for divorce more often?

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Women

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Types of Marriage: Disengaged

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2nd highest failure 
too self-sufficient individuals 
do not want/need intimacy but maybe want 
children, security, status 
lack mutual interests
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Types of Marriage: Operatic

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Volatile, super passionate
3rd highest failure rate
Sensation seeking men and emotionally volatile women
fighting trigger for sex &passion
In anger say hurtful, unforgivable things, anger erupts into violence

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Types of Marriage: Stable

Cohesive/Individuated

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2nd lowest divorce rate
good marriages, supportive, affectionate, companions
equally, share responsibilities
but sometimes me becomes more important than we
do well after divorced women become enhanced

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Types of Marriage: Traditional

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Lowest divorce rate
Traditional gender roles
Works well if couples continue to value, changes in one partner kills these marriages
If divorce seeks out another traditional partner

25
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Marriage definition

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Lifelong relationship between a man and woman

Cultural ideal, not reality, divorce is a fact of life

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What has changed now for divorce? Greying of Divorce?

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Baby boomers are more likely to be divorced/widowed in later life
Divorce rate high for this group “greying of divorce”

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Common Law Marriage

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Live together for 7 years but not always reality is that not all states recognize it or have different requirements, some no longer allow it

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How many states recognize some form of the common law of marriage?

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10 states & D.C state statutes or case law recognizes some form
- Alabama, Colorado
1 for specific reason Kentucky awards worker’s comp. benefit

29
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Colonial Era: 1620- Revolutionary War

Frequency

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Rare: difficult to get so mostly abandoned each other
true number unknown
Men: Adultery Women: Dessertion

30
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Colonial Era: Legal Regulation

How were the guilty parties treated?

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Each colony had own rules on who decided
-courts
-governors
-legislatures
-only allowed for specific fault grounds (adultry, desertion, bigamy)
whippings, fines and jail

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Colonial Era: Public Attitudes

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Strongly disapproved
Low moral character, low status
Little resistance “necessary evil”

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Revolutionary War: Frequency

Who was generally getting divorced and what did people do instead that couldn’t?

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Little data but more common after Revolutionary War
Better records after Civil War
The rich (expensive) and poor people just separated without divorce

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Revolutionary War: wilcox what did he find about frequency correlation and who was most likely to file?

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legal regulations have little influence on frequency

  • Economic Independence (Northern States)
  • Wives in Demand (Western States)
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Revolutionary War: Legal Regulation: After Rev. War

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Quickly formalized Laws
Authority moved from State Legislature to Courts
Instituted more reasons to divorce “causive reasoning”
Cruelty, Insanity, Imprisonment

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Which was the first state to allow divorce for a general (as opposed to specific) reasons?

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Indiana first “omnibus” clause and easy residency requirements
Any misconduct that destroys happiness of petitioner

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