DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY
ADULTHOOD PHYSICAL COGNITIVE AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT
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Middle-aged adults seem to have a much harder time adjusting to divorce than younger people.
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In the United States, the divorce rate among adults age 50 and over has doubled in the past two decades.
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Divorcing women frequently mention that their emotional inattentiveness played a role in the marital failure.
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Middle-aged adults who divorce report gains in happiness-an outcome stronger among men than women.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Almost 50 percent of all marriages in the United States will end in divorce or separation. 7. Researchers estimate that 41 percent of all first marriages end in divorce.
Detailed explanation-2: -Among the middle aged, the divorce rate rose from 6.9 to 13.1 divorced persons per 1, 000 married persons between 1990 and 2010. Similarly, the divorce rate climbed from 1.8 to 4.8 among older adults.
Detailed explanation-3: -With marriage comes the risk of a marital dissolution via divorce or widowhood, which have both been prevalent among older adults. While 34% women and 33% of men ages 20 or older who ever married had ever divorced, the percentage of adults 55 to 64 years who ever divorced is much higher: about 43% for both sexes.
Detailed explanation-4: -Divorce rates steadily increased from the mid-1800s to the 1950s. The biggest increase in divorces was between the ‘60s and ‘70s. Since the turn of the 21st century, divorce has been on the decline.