Do women file for divorce at twice the rate of men?

EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT DIVORCE – FACTS, STATISTICS, AND RATES

If you spend enough time perusing the internet, you’ll find no shortage of studies, statistics, and facts about divorce.

There seems to be a study looking into almost every possible factor that might affect marriages and lead to divorce.  These studies have yielded some extremely interesting and – in some cases – downright shocking information about divorce in both the United States and the rest of the world.

Just in case you don’t have 20 hours to spare (it may or may not have taken this long to compile this list), we have compiled a nearly exhaustive list with every divorce statistic, study, and fact that we could find.  As we move through 2016 towards 2017, here is everything you need to know – and quite possibly more- about divorce.

DIVORCE RATE IN THE UNITED STATES

Divorce and marriage rates.

1.  As of 2016, both marriage rates AND divorce rates in the US are decreasing.

2. The marriage rate in the United States is currently 6.8 per 1,000 total populations.

3. The divorce rate in the U.S. is  3.2 per 1,000 population (as of 2014 the latest year of data from the CDC. (With 44 states and D.C. reporting) This is known as the “crude divorce rate”. Although useful for describing changes in divorce rates over time, the crude divorce rate does not provide accurate information on the percentage of first marriages that end in divorce.

Divorce rate per 1000 married women.

4.  Currently, the divorce rate per 1000 married women is 16.9.  Many experts feel that this is a much more accurate measure of true divorce rate than the crude rate.

5.  The divorce rate per 1000 married women is nearly double that of 1960, but down from the all time high of 22.6 in the early 1980s.

6.  Almost 50 percent of all marriages in the United States will end in divorce or separation.

7.  Researchers estimate that 41 percent of all first marriages end in divorce.

8.  60 percent of second marriages end in divorce.

9.  73 percent of all third marriages end in divorce.

10. The United States has the 6th highest divorce rate in the world. Here is a chart of the top twenty:

HOW OFTEN DIVORCE TAKES PLACE IN THE U.S.

11. Every 13 seconds, there is one divorce in America.

12. That equates to 277 divorces per hour, 6,646 divorces per day, 46,523 divorces per week, and 2,419,196 divorces per year. That means:

13. There are 9 divorces in the time it takes for a couple to recite their wedding vows (2 minutes).

14. More than 554 divorces occur during your typical romantic comedy movie (2 hours).

15. 1,385 divorces happen during the average wedding reception (5 hours).

16. There are 19,353,568 divorces over the course of an average first marriage that ends in divorce (8 years).

17. Over a 40 year period, 67 percent of first marriages terminate.

18. Among all Americans 18 years of age or older, whether they have been married or not, 25 percent have gone through a marital split.

19. 15 percent of adult women in the United States are divorced or separated today, compared with less than one percent in 1920.

20. The average first marriage that ends in divorce lasts about 8 years.

Median duration of first marriages that end in divorce:

Males: 7.8 years

Females: 7.9 years

LAWLESS FAMILY COURTS DESTROYING FAMILIES - COME TOGETHER AMERICA 4FAMILY JUSTICE 2017 from American Fathers Liberation Army

Zero Tolerance for False DV Allegations

False Allegations of Domestic Violence Awareness

Over 1,700 research studies conclude that men and women engage in partner aggression at similar rates. Yet some groups ignore the problem of mutual abuse, minimize female-initiated aggression, and claim that DV is an expression of patriarchal power.

“Groups that distort the truth are keeping us from ending the cycle of violence.” — S. Hutter, SAVE   --

Battered Men - The Hidden Side of Domestic Violence

Latest Research Findings

Research Findings on Intimate Partner Violence Against Men

© 2012 by Bert H. Hoff, J.D. *
Adjunct Faculty, University of Phoenix School of Criminal Justice and Security
May be cited as: Hoff, B. H. (2012), Research Findings on Intimate Partner Violence Against Men. MenWeb on-line Journal (ISSN: 1095-5240 http://www.batteredmen.com/ResearchGraphs.htm)
This article is available in PowerPoint (497 KB) format.

SUMMARY: According to a 2010 national survey by the Centers for Disease Control and Department of Justice (NISVS), in the last 12 months more men than women were victims of intimate partner physical violence and over 40% of severe physical violence was directed at men. Men were also more often the victim of psychological aggression and control over sexual or reproductive health. Despite this, few services are available to male victims of intimate partner violence. Here are some of the graphs from two articles I am working on, "The National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey and the Perils of Advocacy Research" (publication pending in the Journal of Aggression, Conflict and Peace Research) and "National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey and the Perils of Advocacy Research" Here is a PowerPoint slide show with the complete set of graphics. Click here to download a PowerPoint slide show presentation of these graphics Feel free to use it, for friends and family, domestic viiolence people, policy-makers, legislators, other government officials, or whomever! I hope it's useful.

Awareness Rally For Children's Rights

Advocates for the rights of our children and their parents to have meaningful life-long relationships.

The BEST Parent is BOTH Parents!!

Fathers have become undervalued, family structure has become disposable, children suffer without both parents but so often father is left out, seen as nonessential. Let's correct this by bringing attention to it! We're happy to populate the Internet with information that is helpful, supportive, and conducive to fostering father-child relationships, reducing or eliminating Parental Alienation, for the betterment of our children's psychological and emotional health, and for the future health of our families and societies.

Fathers have become undervalued, family structure has become disposable, children suffer without both parents but so often father is left out, seen as nonessential. Let's correct this by bringing attention to it! We're happy to populate the Internet with information that is helpful, supportive, and conducive to fostering father-child relationships, reducing or eliminating Parental Alienation, for the betterment of our children's psychological and emotional health, and for the future health of our families and societies

HEADS UP!!!

Child Support Calculated

Divorce Corp Director, Joseph Sorge, interviews renowned economist and lead author of a breakthrough study on the costs of raising a child, Professor William Comanor. 

Watch this video to learn the shocking facts about how child support costs are currently calculated and why they need to be revised. 

Then share this interview with your state legislators to support child support reforms. 

Together we can end unnecessary fighting over one of the most contentious aspects of any divorce; child support.

The coauthors of the study are Mark Sarro, Principal of The Brattle Group and R. Mark Rogers, Founder and Principal of Rogers Economics, Inc. Lead author, William S. Comanor is Professor of Economics at UC Santa Barbara and Professor of Health Policy & Management at UCLA. The full paper "The Monetary Cost of Raising Children" published in the journal "Economic and Legal Issues in Competition, Intellectual Property, Bankruptcy, and the Cost of Raising Children" Volume 27, can be found here:

Divorce Corp VIDEOS

From Family Courts To Federal Courts For Civil Rights Protections

Parents Increasingly Turning to Federal Courts for Civil Rights Protections...

Imagine you are in a divorce.  You’ve been a dedicated parent and you aren’t a convicted felon or being accused of a crime.  Now imagine walking into a local court for a procedural hearing and in a single decree your children are banned from seeing you, speaking to you or communicating in any way based solely on hearsay and allegation.  Nothing’s been proven, no due process has occurred to prove anything yet a capricious judge has made a snap decision that changes the rest of your life and your children’s.   What would you do?

Unfortunately this scenario is the real life experience of thousands of families across the country. An overzealous or biased Judge makes a snap decision that takes away the most important things in our lives.  Whether or not you were the one seeking divorce there’s very little that parents who find themselves in this situation can do.   Even when children are banned ‘temporarily’ from their parents, months can drag on to years between court dates and there’s no pause button in life.  Milestones go by, alienation grows, bitterness increases and worst of all children experience immense pain and loss.   Surprisingly most states have no provisions to intervene when children are banned from their parents yet this is one of the cruelest punishments that a court can levy.

While the US Constitution gives the powers of marriage, divorce and adoption to state civil courts, state civil courts simply ignore their obligations to support the civil rights protections of parents as held in the US Constitution.   Parents who can’t afford attorneys can lose their children fighting spouses with access to legal assistance.  Children who are the ones ‘protected’ have no say in bizarre custody decisions.  Evidence standards are non-existent in family courts in the USA so children can be taken from parents purely on accusation.  However, since many courts receive federal aid and recent Supreme Court cases like Turner vs. Rogers have reinforced the concept of due process in divorce many parents are turning to federal courts to seek restoration of their parental rights based on civil rights arguments.

Congressional Testimony: Glen Gibellina to Bill Windsor of Lawless America  http://youtu.be/2ytNK_jYf3Y

The Role of Father Involvement in Children’s Lives

Misleading Assumptions in
Fatherhood Research

The evolution of fatherhood research offers interesting insights into academics’ assumptions about how fathers contribute to their children’s well-being. These assumptions influence research agendas and, while sometimes being helpful, can also lead to misunderstanding fathers and their contributions. For instance, the scholarly study of fathers began with the Second World War when researchers made the assumption that father absence would lead young boys to become effeminate (Bach, 1946; McCord, McCord, & Thurber, 1962) or homosexual (see Pleck, 2007), with much of this research drawing on Freudian theory (Burton & Whiting, 1961). During this time and through much of the 1970s, aside from examining their presence or absence, fathers were not included in “parenting” research, which was primarily the study of the mother’s influence.

Then, in the 1980s, feminist thought began to influence the research field, and the assumptions about the father’s role expanded to include multiple aspects of parenting (see Lamb, 2000). Scholars began to categorize general “types” of father involvement (e.g., engagement, responsibility, accessibility) and study how these types influenced children (Lamb, Pleck, Charnov, & Levine, 1985, 1987). From this research grew a wealth of information on how a father’s involvement contributed to his children’s development (Lamb, 2010). Bolstered by these findings, fatherhood researchers increasingly argued that when studying child development, it was critical to study the father’s role.

At the same time, social movements arose that began to call into question two assumptions often underlying fatherhood research: 1) that what fathers do as parents is different from what mothers do and 2) that father involvement is essential for child well-being. Regarding the first assumption, it is certainly true that there is much overlap in what fathers and mothers do. Both mothers and fathers care for their children, express love, monitor, discipline, play, teach, etc. In fact, it is difficult to name a category of parenting tasks that fathers and mothers cannot both do. Jay Fagan and colleagues (Fagan, Day, Lamb, & Cabrera, 2014) found little research justification that “mothering” and “fathering” were different. They therefore conclude that there is justification for collapsing the terms “mothering” and “fathering” into “parenting.”

Regarding the second assumption about “essentiality,” Louise Silverstein and Carl Auerbach (1999) rightly challenged the notion that every child requires a father in order to successfully develop. Indeed, there are numerous examples of people who succeeded without being raised by a father. Barack Obama became President of the United States and Michael Phelps became the most decorated Olympic athlete in history, and both were raised primarily without a father.

How To Look Credible While Being Dishonest Corrupt Judges

- "The role of the government is to PROTECT rights that cannot be taken away"

Sadly, restraining order abuse has recently emerged as a very potent tool to gain tactical advantage in divorce or separations. Those on the receiving end of restraining order abuse typically find it to be extremely disruptive in their lives, limiting access to their children and property.A restraining order is a court order limiting the contact of one individual with another or, as in a case involving children, several others. This includes direct physical contact, phone and mail contact, contact in the home, contact at work, etc. For instance, a restraining order may prohibit a person from coming within 100 feet of their own home. These are brought on by litigants claiming they need protection from abuse or stalking from another person. 

It is far easier for a party to get a restraining order now than ever before because federal laws have changed substantially within the last 15 years. In addition, many states have enacted other laws making for wide disparities among the states as for abuse potential.

Collectively, this greatly reduces the burden of proof needed to get restraining orders and otherwise exploit them.The burden to prove that a restraining order is not called for or the terms of it are not reasonable has largely shifted to the recipient of it who must then fight for their rights through lengthy court proceedings and expensive legal representation. 

Often this occurs while simultaneously being homeless and having their personal property under the control of the accuser. "Separation from their children" during stages in the litigation can be very lengthy and lead to "parental alienation." The resulting hostility between separated legal combatants can be tremendous and can certainly spill over to affect their innocent children.Many restraining order injunctions appear to be misused as one form of dirty tricks or as a method to harass the other party or to gain custody of minor children.

My concern is for men that are wrongly convicted on restraining orders with no proof to support these allegations or based solely on the word of an angered ex-partner.Worse still is the way the the law has no consequences when the woman violates her own retraining order. I feel women should be held accountable for their actions also, and in most states they are. Victim services and Eugene courts need to know both sides and have proof before making decisions that impact peoples lives.

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Family Court Intentional Infliction of Emotional Distress

STOP Court's DENIAL of REASONABLE Parent/Child CONTACT 


 “defendant willfully, maliciously, intentionally, and outrageously inflict...
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Q: Can my boyfriend and his ex work out a parenting plan for custody and visitation without going through the court system?

A: Can my boyfriend and his ex work out a parenting plan for custody and visitation without going through the court system?

Me and My Daddy are going to KICK Parental Alienation BUTT!

Parental alienation: "a disorder that arises primarily in the context of child-custody disputes. Custody can go on for years to the detriment of the children."