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“The marriage and divorce trends of the “modern” American family have been studied for decades. In an attempt to further understand the outcomes of divorce, a team of family scholars headed by University of Chicago sociologist Linda Waite studied whether unhappily married adults who divorced were any happier than unhappily married people who stayed married.” This 2-page fact sheet was written by Donna Davis and published by the UF Department of Family, Youth and Community Sciences, September 2012.
References
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Schoen, R., Astone, N. M., Rothert, K., Standish, N. J., & Kim, Y. J. (2002). Women's employment, marital happiness, and divorce. Social Forces, 81(2), 643-662. https://doi.org/10.1353/sof.2003.0019
Waite, J. L., Browning, D., Doherty, W. J., Gallagher, M., Luo, Y., & Stanley, S. M. (2002). Does divorce make people happy? Findings from a study of unhappy marriages. Executive summary. Retrieved December 5, 2005, from http://americanvalues.org/html/r-unhappy_ii.html.