Welcome to the Divorce Statistics and Studies Blog

This site continues, but does not duplicate, the work of the Divorce Statistics Collection site, which gathered information and analysis of divorce statistics, and citations and abstracts of studies on the incidence, causes and effects of divorce.This blog is interactive and collaborative: if you have information that is not on this blog nor on the Divorce Statistics Collection, please send it in, using the comments section.
To get complete information and citations, you should also review the research pages at the Howard Center, Smart Marriages, the Bristol Community Family Trust, the National Healthy Marriage Resource Center, RAND, the National Center for Policy Analysis, and the Divorce Statistics Collection’s page on your topic. The main pages or sub-sites within the Divorce Statistics Collection are:

Divorce Rates: U.S. | International | State & Local | Why they increased | When children present | Change Over Time/Historical | Length of marriage before divorce |  Military | Understanding divorce rates
Correlations with Other Factors: Age | Alcoholic parents | Children of Divorce Getting Divorced
| Cohabitation | Current Events| Gender of Children | Laws |   Marriage education programs | Occupation | Poverty | Race | Region | Religion |  Smoking | Unrealistic Expectations 
Effects on Society: Domestic Violence | Social-Economic-Taxpayer Costs | Effects on Black Community
Effects on Divorced People: Domestic Violence | Economic | Happiness | Physical and Mental Health
Effects on Children: Generally | Child Abuse | Poverty | Crime | Crime | Physical Health | Mental Health/Behavioral | Social Skills/Adjustment | Suicide | Teen & single parenthood | Exposure to family conflict | Stepfamilies | African American Children
Other:  Summary of Our Findings So Far| Causes of individual divorces