IAV|Does Divorce Make People Happy?

IAV|Does Divorce Make People Happy?: "Does Divorce Make People Happy?
Findings from a Study of Unhappy Marriages

Call it the 'divorce assumption.' Most people assume that a person stuck in a bad marriage has two choices: stay married and miserable or get a divorce and become happier.1 But now come the findings from the first scholarly study ever to test that assumption, and these findings challenge conventional wisdom. Conducted by a team of leading family scholars headed by University of Chicago sociologist Linda Waite, the study found no evidence that unhappily married adults who divorced were typically any happier than unhappily married people who stayed married. "

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posted by Robert Heard at 10:08 AM