Divorce Statistics and Studies Blog

Percentage of Americans divorced or separated, by age

Chart from "Total Divorce" blog based on 2009 US Census Bureau data, with percentage of ever-married people in each age bracket who describe themselves as divorced or separated.

 

Regnerus Gay-Parenting Study: Really a Broken-Hetero-Family Study

The Regnerus Gay-Parenting Study: More Red Flags

By Walter Olson  07/17/2012 

And for more on its methods and the reaction to it, see:

"Revenge of the Sociologists: The perils of politically incorrect academic research". Weekly Standard JUL 30, 2012, VOL. 17, NO. 43 • BY ANDREW FERGUSON

 

How marriage improves kids' lives, education, behavior, extracurriculars, and fortunes

This New York Times article, passed on by my New York divorce lawyer friend Chaim Steinberger, reports and beautifully illustrates the conclusions of recent studies from Child Trends and Brookings on how stable marriage helps children by improving their families' economic welfare, the amount of time adults devote to them, their educational and extracurricular opportunities, and behavioral and health outcomes. Its tone is evenhanded and dispassionate, yet its information and insight is passion-stirring -- in a much more constructive way than a lot of that "mommy wars" and "culture wars" stuff that people so often write about marriage, work, and single parenthood.

"Two Classes, Divided by ‘I Do’" By JASON DePARLE, New York Times July 14, 2012