Sentence examples for divorce compared with from inspiring English sources

Almost half of all American marriages end in divorce (compared with just over a third twenty-five yeago and), and many couples have decided to protect themselves, to the extent that they can, through the "pre-nup".

Lynn Prince Cooke, a sociology professor at the University of Kent in England, has found that American couples who share employment and housework responsibilities are less likely to divorce compared with couples where the man is the sole breadwinner.

Britain's divorce rate is towards the top end of Europe's league on 1995 trends, 45% of marriages will end in divorce, compared with an average of 30% for the European Union (and of 55% in America).

Take Hetherington's assertion that the negative long-term effect of divorce on children has "been exaggerated to the point where we now have created a self-fulfilling prophecy" while "objective assessments" tell a different story: 25percentt of adult children of divorce, compared with 10percentt from nondivorced families, displayed "serious social, emotional or psychological problems".

There may also be something systematically different about parents who divorce compared with those who don't, whereas death can be seen as a relatively random occurrence.

Just 9 percent of New Jersey adults are divorced, compared with nearly 52 percent of whom are now married.

In the past six months, he said, among the units he counsels there have been 14 drunken driving incidents involving military members, compared with two incidents a year ago; four soldiers per unit divorcing, compared with two a year ago, and six soldiers per unit struggling to interact appropriately with their children, compared with one case a year ago.

But in Scotland there was already less reliance on fault-based grounds before the law changed - used for 20% of divorces, compared with three times as many in the rest of Britain.

Only 11percentt of the survivors were divorced compared with 18percentt of American Jews.

Another study from the University of Wisconsin at Madison, conducted in 2010, used a much smaller sample size -- 391 families -- and found that 23.5percentt of parents of children with autism divorced, compared with 13.8percentt of those with typically developing children.

A large Swedish study has found that obese people who had a spouse or live-in partner and then underwent weight loss surgery were 28% more likely to become separated or divorced compared with those in a comparison group who didn't have surgery.