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Divorce Ideation.
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Divorce decision-making; Divorce thinking
Introduction
Demographers estimate that 40–50% of first marriages and 60% of second marriages end in divorce (Kennedy and Ruggles 2014; Kreider and Ellis 2011). But there is a curious research gap on divorce ideation and decision-making. What are people thinking when they are thinking about divorce? How many people are thinking about divorce? How frequent and serious are their thoughts? How static or stable is their thinking? What do they do to try to repair the relationship?
Until recently, there was little research on these questions. But some answers to these questions are available from a recent study with a nationally representative sample of 3,000 married individuals of ages 25–50 (Hawkins et al. 2017b; National Divorce Decision-Making Project 2015). This study also included a 1-year follow-up survey and repeated in-depth interviews with a subsample of 30 individuals thinking about divorce.
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Hawkins, A.J., Allen, S.E., Roberts, K., Harris, S.M., Allen, S.M. (2019). Divorce Ideation. In: Lebow, J.L., Chambers, A.L., Breunlin, D.C. (eds) Encyclopedia of Couple and Family Therapy. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49425-8_791
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