college jo Posted March 13, 2008 Posted March 13, 2008 Hello everyone out there...I'm doing a survey on divorce for school and was wondering if anyone could take the time to fill it out it would really help my research.Thank you for your time! How old were you and your partner when you got married? Region/Location of marriage. How long was your marriage? How long did you know each other before marriage? Did you live together before marriage? Did you share the same background? (Race/Ethnicity, Social Class (education), Religion) Did you establish what your or your partner were brining into your marriage? (Roles for household tasks, finances, etc) What was the reason for the divorce? Did you get involved in any divorce prevention programs? (Counseling, books, support groups) Did you separate before the divorce? Did you find it difficult to get the actual divorce done? (Admitting the marriage was over, financial reasons/lawyers, not agreeing with partner to get divorce) Did you have or plan to have any children? (Age and Gender of children if applicable) If so, what are the arrangements now for the children? Also, do you see any affects on your children? How do you think children feel about the divorce? Do you keep in contact with your ex-partner? Are you remarried or plan to remarry? Any other comments about marriage/divorce……….ie. what you could have changed (better communication, intimacy levels, etc); do you think you had unrealistic expectations for your marriage; did you foresee your divorce, was it difficult to divide your assets; did you feel any pressure to get married in the first place; did you family or partner’s family approve of the marriage, etc
Gunny376 Posted March 13, 2008 Posted March 13, 2008 I'd be willing to participate ~ but only if the MODS says its OK. (Which I guess they would ~ assuming they left the thread open and/or didn't lock it down?) With that? Assuming this thread is legit? I wrote some papers in college for various classes while in college. My source for the following was Lexus/Nexus a research database ~ available at colleges and universities ~ but not normally available to undergrads (you've got to pay some serious coin to use it) 90% of all divorce petitions are filed by women ~ which for a long time I thought spoke volumes about women? But there was a recent thread that there's some "macho" deal where men won't file for divorce? So women have to in order to "get her done?" The divorce rate for men that marry because they got women pregno? 90% The divorce rate for men that marry younger than 25? 90% Divorce rate for first time marriages? 48 - 50 % (Dr. Phil Show) Divorce rate for second time marriages? 62% (Dr. Phil Show) Divorce rate for third time marriages? 73% (Dr. Phil show) The State of Flordia got aggressive about "Dead-beat" Dads? Of the thousands of cases of "Dead Beat Dad's they found out that the reason half of the "Dead Beat Dads" were "Dead-beats? Was because ~ well they were dead! Or in prison, on disability, in commas, paralysied? (But the Women's Liberation movement ~ made great hash about all of this?) Half of all first time marriage end in the divorce? What of the other half? 2/3's of the other half that stay married? Do so because of the status quo, finances, religious beliefs, the children. Only 13% of the half of first time marriages stay married because they're "in-love!" (Book "Crazytime") A really good book about the effects of divorce on children? "Second Chances" by Hellen Wallerstein. She did a twenty year study on the subject, and found that divorce affects children of divorce into their forties and beyond. I would also recomend the following source material: Feb 2007 edition of National Geographic Magazine Jan 28, 2008 edition of Time Books "Why Men Don't Have A Clue, and Women Need A New Pair of Shoes" "When Venus and Mars Collide" John Gray, PhD
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