Divorce reminds most people of things like tearful nights alone, long custody battles, and villainous mistresses. But when we see headlines in Reuters like “Pakistani women turn to once-taboo divorce to escape abuse,” divorce beings to remind us of different things. Divorce begins to remind us of things like women’s…
We all want to focus on the magic of the holiday season, especially when everything is strung up in twinkling lights. But when a marriage is on the rocks, a couple cannot just rely on holiday magic to solve or absolve their relationship issues. Lawyers, divorce coaches, and other divorce…
Yesterday we began our belated homage to the late Judith Wallerstein, one of America’s most influential psychologists. Wallerstein passed away June 18th earlier this year in Piedmont, California, which regrettably went unnoticed by our blog. Part l of our blog series introduced Judith Wallerstein with a mini-biography, a recap of…
Earlier this year on June 18th, 2012, Judith Wallerstein passed away at the age of 90. For the majority of readers who probably don’t know who Judith Wallerstein was (admittedly, I didn’t before this morning), let us oblige: Judith Wallerstein was a prominent psychologist who focused on the impact of…
The amount of studies done on children and divorce have reached cliché levels in today’s society. But, just because they reached astronomical proportions the severity of the situation isn’t decreased. General statistics can be taken many different ways and eschewed to benefit whoever is promoting the particular statistic s at…
Many states have a clause under their divorce laws that specifically state that mediation is mandatory before a party decides to completely dissolve their marriage. Mediation is a form of alternative dispute resolution, or the practice of resolving disputes between two or more parties with concrete effects. Typically, a third…
Living in such a diverse country, we can often get lost in the way our culture operates as opposed to other countries around the world. When it comes to divorce, we often to assume that the United States has to be in the lead compared to the rest of the…
Polls, data, and statistics. Taking the pulse within a large body of people, especially as diverse as the United States, can be tedious in nature. Many variables go into gathering, refining, and coming to conclusions on data for millions of people. The divorce rate has long been the subject of…
A recent United Kingdom study about divorce rates shows that in the past ten years divorce rates have fallen by 25%. However, the study gathered marriage and divorce data from 1993 and 2010 to find that marriage rates fell as well. This information should not cause alarm; the institution of…
There have been many instances throughout pop culture where divorce has been dramatized both on the big screen and in TV programs. Some movies have taken a light hearted approach bordering on the absurdity of the strain a marriage can put on both men and women. While others have taken…