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In the past 20 years divorce in the United States has grown from a curious, relatively infrequent phenomenon to a widespread and almost expectable fact of life (U.S. Bureau of Census, 1976). The rise in the divorce rate has been so persistent and dramatic that nowadays people routinely predict that between one-third and one-half of current marriages ultimately will end in divorce. With constant repetition such statistics seem to have lost their numbing chill. Yet, divorce appears to be as traumatic as ever for those whom it affects: divorce(e)s are significantly more prone than married people to psychiatric hospitalization, physical illness, suicide, homicide, motor vehicle accidents and high levels of stress; nearly 40 percent of divorced individuals receive some form of psychiatric care (Bloom, Asher, & White, 1978).
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Bradford Brown, B., Foye, B.F. (1984). Divorce as a Dual Transition: Interpersonal Loss and Role Restructuring. In: Allen, V.L., van de Vliert, E. (eds) Role Transitions. NATO Conference Series, vol 23. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-2697-7_22
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