Divorce

Time-Related Determinants of Marital Dissolution

“…Teenage brides or grooms have had less time to gain social experience in the dating market and to form realistic expectations about adult roles; they have less time to prepare for employment; they have yet to experience potentially disruptive experiences of late adolescence; and they often violate normative expectations expressed by family, friends, or social institutions by marrying young (Morgan and Rindfuss, 1985;Raschke, 1987). They also enter a status experienced by few of their peers.…”

Interactions Between Cultural and Economic Determinants of Divorce in The Netherlands

“…The risk of divorce is increased if the parents of the respondent divorced when the respondent was young (Wolfinger, 1999). Finally, American research points to ethnic and racial differences in the divorce risks (Raschke, 1987). We include these variables in our analyses as control variables.…”

Divorce History and Self-Reported Psychological Distress in Husbands and Wives

“…Second, the high distress of this group is not likely due to deficiencies in social support, marital satisfaction, and autonomy, because analyses not reported here indicated that husbands' and wives' divorce history groups did not differ on these variables. Finally, the heightened distress of serially married women is unlikely to be related to gender differences in adjustment to divorce, because such differences have not been consistently reported (Raschke, 1987).…”