Explaining Divorce

Abstract

Divorce literature has focused on demographic correlates and offered little information on how the dynamics of the marriage con tribute to marital dissolution. Using waves I and II of the National Sur vey of Families and Households (NSFH) this study identifies several marital characteristics associated with divorce, and differential results by gender. For example, time spent together is a significant predictor for women, but not for men whereas having an unsociable marriage is sig nificant for men, but not for women. While the results contribute to the literature on correlates, attention is drawn to the low levels of explained variance of the models and theoretical and methodological explanations are offered for why we have not done a good job of explaining divorce.

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