KIN 1600 : Test 3
15 Mar 2019
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The older you become, the less likely you are to get divorced: 1 divorce every 36 seconds, 2400 divorces/day. Yearly= 875k: the average length of divorced couples, average length was 8 years. 30 is the avg. age for first divorce: 79% of women, if children involved, get custody. In most cases, women aren"t fighting for it. Acrimonious: only 1% of same sex couples get divorced each year, zsazsa gabor: she has nine marriages in divorces. Largest divorce settlement, when mel gibson was divorced. If your parents are happily married, rate of divorces decreased by 15%. If you wait until the age of 25 or older, less likely to get divorced. Cohabitation, those couples get divorced 40% more than the average: attending college lowers divorce rate by 13%. It becomes complicated: close to 80% of children live with their mother. Out of divorced mothers with child, close to 30% live below the poverty line.
