So let's return to the topic: Where's the proof that the divorce gap is a result of discrimination against girls?
In fact, Mr. Morgan, who wrote about the divorce gap in the late 1980's, said he could no longer notice it among the group he studied.
The inability of some fathers -- though not all, of course -- to get as excited about a baby girl as they do about a baby boy almost certainly plays a role in creating the divorce gap.
The number of degrees of freedom becomes rather limited as 18 macro-level effects have to be estimated now, but nevertheless the mediating effect of familialism on the female married-divorced gap is not affected by the correlation between the two value measures, nor is any other effect.
Only the gap between divorced and married women is significantly wider in familialistic societies.
Evidence in support of this hypothesis was found with respect to the well-being gap between cohabiting and married persons (Diener et al. 2000; Soons and Kalmijn 2009), but not for the gap between married and divorced persons in studies that use the normative rejection of divorce as a measurement of the normative climate (Diener et al. 2000; Kalmijn 2010).
For women, however, living in a familialistic society deepens the gap between those who are divorced and those who are married: a one standard deviation higher score on familialism goes together with an increase of 0.23 in the well-being gap (from −0.78 to −1.01).
This would reduce the gap between married persons and single, divorced, or widowed persons.
Doubtless drawing on her own experience of age-gap couples, Mrs Michael Douglas plays a divorced single mum who gets it on with her young babysitter, but that's about all there is to this risk-averse Milf-com.
Apparently there's a manners gap between how boomer men and women approach dating, which may partly explain the relatively small number of divorced boomers remarrying.
The gaps between Palestinians in the occupied territories and those with Israeli citizenship, which emerge in "Three Times Divorced", are also evident in Rokaya Sabbah's "On Hold".
