This union was an unhappy one, and resulted in the first reported instance of divorce in the colony; Keayne returned to England and repudiated the marriage.
We might also expect an under-reporting of divorce, particularly in families whose faith tradition does not permit divorce.
There are more than 1,250,000 divorces per year in the United States affecting over 1 million children under the age of 18. (North Carolina Cooperative Extension Service Report on Divorce) 2. 40percentt of public school children are from single parent households.
At the end of last year it was reported that 20percentt of divorce cases cited Facebook as a catalyst in the relationship's demise, another factor spoofed in a Net-famous skit [1].
I have been intrigued by the reports of high divorce rates in certain states and low divorce rates in others.
Susan Brown and I-Fen Lin recently completed a paper they titled, The Gray Divorce Revolution, in which they report that the divorce rate of American couples over 50 has been rapidly rising over the past 20 years.
It is a report of the divorce proceedings in a Jersey court wherein the judge awarded the custody of the two children to the husband, on the groundthat the mother of the children had Communistic and atheistic tendencies.
Yet, the report reveals, children of divorce became "a kind of broken leading edge," with spiritual stories quite often characterized by loss or suffering.
A 2010 survey by the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers (AAML) found that four out of five lawyers reported an increasing number of divorce cases citing evidence derived from social networking sites in the past five years, with Facebook being the market leader.
Reported as "divorced", "widowed", "separated", or "never married".
Of the final sample, 26.9% of participants reported having divorced parents.
