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Divorce
is normally caused by just a handful of
reasons. According to a 2004 survey, the most
common of these include:
* Extra-Marital Affairs
(adultery) - 27%
* Strains On The Family - 18%
* Physical or Emotional Abuse - 17%
* Mid-Life Crisis - 13%
* Workaholism - 6%
* Alcohol, Drug or Gambling Addictions - 6%
Men engaged in extra-marital
affairs in 75% of cases while women were responsible 25%
of the time. 78% of time the strains on the
family resulted from the the woman's family while
22% of the time it resulted from the man's family.
Physical or emotional abuse was most often afflicted
by the man, 60%, compared to the woman 40% of the
time. Men were the cause in workaholism cases
by 70% versus 30% for women.
Marriages that were ten to fifteen
years old accounted for 53% of the divorces while
marriages just five to ten years old accounted for
just 40%. Divorce was rare in marriages of
less than five years and also in marriages that were
over 20 years.
Divorce asset settlements favored
women considerably. 60% of the time, women
received a better settlement than men. 30% of
the time, the assets were divided 50-50 and just 10%
of the time the man received a better asset
settlement. Reasons for this disparity
may be due to the fact that women are granted
primary child custody more often and take less of
the marriage's future earning power with them upon
divorce.
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