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This paper focuses on the causes of divorce. Section I developsa theoretical analysis of marital dissolution incorporating uncertaintyabout the outcomes of marital decisions into a framework of utilitymaximization and the marriage market. Section II explores the implica-tions of the theoretical analysis with cross-sectional data,primarilythe 1967 Survey of Economic Opportunity and the Terman sample. Therelevance of both the theoretical and empirical analyses in explainingthe recent acceleration in the U.S. divorce rate is discussed.

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Within the past few years, renewed interest in understanding marital behavior has resulted in a number of studies which focus on an equation estimating the probability of divorce or remarriage. This paper reports on one such effort. It offers a brief rationale for and an estimation of probability functions for divorce rates at specific lengths of marriage duration for a very unrepresentative sample of American women -- a group of geniuses. The data are from the "Terman sample" of some 671 women selected in 1921 (together with a comparable group of men) by psychologist Lewis N. Terman. The sample was chosen from children enrolled in California schools in urban areas. It included children, preselected by their teachers, whose measured IQ was 135 or above. The sample thus represented students in the highest one percent of the school population in general intelligence. In another report I have compared the marital behavior of these Terman subjects to the relevant California population, controlling for the very high level of schooling and the somewhat constricted distribution of age at first marriage among the Terman subjects (Michael 1976). The Terman subjects generally exhibited the same qualitative relationships between marital patterns and such variables as age at marriage and schooling as the California population. However, one should keep in mind the very special nature of this sample when comparing results with other studies.

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In a series of in-depth interviews, divorcing people gave their own accounts of divorce. The analysis of the narratives revealed that divorce is emotionally traumatic, but it should not be considered to be pathological. The emotions of divorce are explicable as an ordinary human reaction to separation, in the context of the real material privations which many divorcing people suffer. The coping strategies people adopt are explicable in psychological terms; importantly, these often involve conflict and acrimony. It is argued that these are integral aspects of the divorce process and are not just artifacts of the adversarial system. Recent divorce reform (Family Law Act 1996) abolished "fault" and provided for mediation to become the norm for resolving divorce disputes. The reform assumes that the adversarial process encourages conflict; mediation, it is thought, will provide the means to promote better co-operation. This book presents a challenge to those assumptions. Its focus is on adults' experiences of divorce.

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