The divorce data excluded California, Hawaii, Indiana, Louisiana and Oklahoma for the same reason.
The one advantage to frightening, if exaggerated, divorce data is that it might nudge people into some preventive marriage counseling.
Research in the 90s found that a couple's satisfaction with their relationship generally increased after children left home, but more recent divorce data suggests a gloomier picture: last year, the Office for National Statistics showed a 65% increase in the number of divorces among those aged 50 or over.
Elena Stancanelli, a senior researcher at the Paris School of Economics, was equally shocked when she analyzed divorce data in France and discovered that French couples who'd been married for 35 or 40 years are now as likely to divorce as couples who've been married for five years.
Also, these authors provide an excellent analysis and correct for previous ways of reporting divorce data.
Last, in Chicago, I directed an NIMH-funded project to create a community college gerontology program, analyzed the data, divorced, and wrote my dissertation, in about that order.
The results of this survey support previous publications 7 8 10 20–22 demonstrating the stark reality that clinicians are significantly divorced from their data in respect of poor access to HES and a lack of involvement in clinical coding.
But these are divorced from the underlying data, which prevents readers from exploring them in more detail by, for instance, zooming in on features of interest.
In just a few pages, you can see how the authors compare married people to cohabiting couples when that makes their case, and then switch to comparing them to single or divorced people when those data fit their argument better.
