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Divorce Statistics and Facts | What Affects Divorce Rates in the U.S.?
Wealth and Divorce | Demography | Duke University Press
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Money, Work, and Marital Stability: Assessing Change in the Gendered Determinants of Divorce
Understanding Marital Breakdown: Key Survey Results - Spectrum Family Law
Why Wealthy People Are Less Likely to Divorce | TDM
The Premarital Communication Roots of Marital Distress and Divorce: The First Five Years of Marriage - PMC
The development of communication behavior over the newlywed years - PMC
The impact of effective communication skills training on the status of marital burnout among married women | BMC Women's Health | Full Text
The mediator role of effective communication skills on the relationship between phubbing tendencies and marriage satisfaction in married individuals - ScienceDirect
Health, health behaviors, and health dissimilarities predict divorce: results from the HUNT study - PMC
Divorce and physical health: A three-level meta-analysis - ScienceDirect
Is premarital counseling worth it? | College of Health and Human Sciences | Colorado State University
Premarital counseling can decrease divorce rates, psychologist says - BYU Daily Universe
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(PDF) Can Divorce Be Prevented by Enhancing the Coping Skills of Couples?
Predictors of divorce and duration of marriage among first marriage women in Dejne administrative town | Scientific Reports
The impact of children on divorce risk | The Journal of Chinese Sociology | Full Text
Managing 24/7: Shiftwork and Divorce - CIRCADIAN
Adventures in stocks, losses in love: The effect of stock market risk-taking on divorce - ScienceDirect
Replicating the Goldilocks Theory of Marriage and Divorce | Institute for Family Studies
Age at First Marriage and Marital Quality: Updating Outdated Social Wisdom | Institute for Family Studies
Divorce Statistics: From the Interesting to the Surprising
5 Reasons Why Second and Third Marriages Are More Prone to Divorce - Micklin Law Group
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Revisiting the Relationship between Age at Marriage and Divorce | Nicholas H. Wolfinger
Want to Avoid Divorce? Wait to Get Married, But Not Too Long | Institute for Family Studies
The Religious Marriage Paradox: Younger Marriage, Less Divorce | Institute for Family Studies
Is Your Spouse More Likely to Divorce You if You Are the Older Partner?
Second marriages are less likely to end in divorce than first - Marriage Foundation
An Optimal Age to Marry? Age at Marriage and Divorce Risk in Europe and the US | Institute for Family Studies
Divorce Statistics 2025: What’s Changing in Marriage Today
Marital history homogamy between the divorced and the never married among non-Hispanic whites - ScienceDirect
Divorce Rates for Second Marriages - Speaks Law Firm, PC Family Law Division
Reasons for Divorce and Recollections of Premarital Intervention: Implications for Improving Relationship Education - PMC
Gray Divorce After 50: Causes, Challenges & Support Guide
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Marriage age and the odds of divorce | DeBra Law, LLC
People Who Marry After This Age More Likely To Get Divorced, According To Research | YourTango
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Child marriage, marital disruption, and marriage thereafter: evidence from a national survey | BMC Women's Health | Full Text
Child Marriage Poses Serious Risks to Children
Want to Avoid Divorce? Wait to Get Married, But Not Too Long | Institute for Family Studies
The link between a college education and a lasting marriage | Pew Research Center
The growth of education differentials in marital dissolution in the United States - PMC
Why Do Lower Educated People Separate More Often? Life Strains and the Gradient in Union Dissolution | European Sociological Review | Oxford Academic
How Education Levels Impact Divorce Rates in Orange County - Sarieh Family Law
The relationship between personality traits and marital satisfaction: a systematic review and meta-analysis - PMC
The Relationship between Personality Trait: Conscientiousness and Marital Satisfaction » The International Journal of Indian Psychȯlogy
A Preliminary Meta-analysis of the Big Five Personality Traits’ Effect on Marital Separation: Journal of Divorce & Remarriage: Vol 62, No 7
Relationship satisfaction and The Big Five – Utilizing longitudinal data covering 9 years - ScienceDirect
Personality traits and marital satisfaction within enduring relationships - Amy Claxton, Norm O’Rourke, JuliAnna Z. Smith, Anita DeLongis, 2012
Predicting Marital Success with PREPARE: A Predictive Validity Study
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Heritability of the big five personality dimensions and their facets: a twin study - PubMed
Exploring Conscientiousness: Part 1 of the Big Five Personality Traits – Insights for Mental Health — Psychiatry & Psychotherapy Podcast
Heritability estimates of the Big Five personality traits based on common genetic variants | Translational Psychiatry
The genetic basis of human height | Nature Reviews Genetics
Human Height: A Model Common Complex Trait - PMC
Genetic and environmental influences on height from infancy to early adulthood: An individual-based pooled analysis of 45 twin cohorts | Scientific Reports
Conscientiousness | Psychology Today
APA Dictionary of Psychology
Self-Regulation and Conscientiousness | Noba
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10 Professions With The Highest Divorce Rate [Updated 2024]
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Which Occupation Has the Highest Divorce Rate? | Onrec
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Reddit - The heart of the internet
Divorce Rate by Industry - Buncher Family Law
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Divorce Rate Statistics by Age, Location, Occupation
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A Closer Look at the Jobs with the Highest and Lowest Divorce Rates | Institute for Family Studies
Dissimilar occupations and marital stability | IZA Journal of Labor Economics | Full Text
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All the Single Ladies: Job Promotions and the Durability of Marriage
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Dual‐Earner Couples in the United States
Divorce Rates and Statistics: A Legal Analysis
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Couples most likely to divorce have this factor in common | Fortune Well
Labour and love: wives’ employment and divorce risk in its socio-political context
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Stepfamily Statistics - Smart Stepfamilies
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Premarital Parenthood and Newlyweds’ Marital Trajectories - PMC
Baby Before Marriage No Longer Increases Divorce Risk | A. Traub & Associates
Reassessing the Link Between Premarital Cohabitation and Marital Instability - PMC
Change in the Stability of Marital and Cohabiting Unions Following the Birth of a Child
Premarital births no longer predict breakups | Cornell Chronicle
Are Childless Couples Headed Toward Divorce? | HuffPost Life
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Divorce and Diverging Poverty Rates: A Risk‐and‐Vulnerability Approach - Hogendoorn - 2020 - Journal of Marriage and Family - Wiley Online Library
Does Divorce Risk Depend on Spouses' Relative Income? A Register-Based Study of First Marriages in Sweden in 1981-1998
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The More the Merrier? The Effect of Children on Divorce in a Pronatalist Society | SpringerLink
Want to save your marriage? Don't have kids | Matthew D Johnson | The Guardian
(PDF) The More the Merrier? The Effect of Children on Divorce in a Pronatalist Society
Child-Free by Choice: Marriage and Divorce Considerations
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Cohabitation Doesn’t Help Your Odds of Marital Success | Institute for Family Studies
New DU Study Highlights Risks of Living Together Before Engagement | University of Denver
Are Couples That Live Together Before Marriage More Likely to Divorce? | Psychology Today
Should Couples Live Together Before Marriage? - Focus on the Family
Cohabitation: Effects of Cohabitation on the Men and Women Involved Part 1 of 2 - American College of Pediatricians
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The pre-engagement cohabitation effect: a replication and extension of previous findings - PubMed
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9 Signs of a Controlling Partner
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Subtle controlling behaviour in relationships - Relationships Australia Queensland
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Desired Change in Couples: Gender Differences and Effects on Communication - PMC
You belong to me! Meta-analytic review of the use of male control and dominance against women in intimate partner violence - ScienceDirect
Reddit - The heart of the internet
When men control relationships, women feel effects
Relationship Violence Reported by Young Women Linked to Overly Controlling Male Partner | Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health
Determinants of intimate partner controlling behavior targeting women in Türkiye - PMC
ontrolling Behaviors in Couple Relationships in the Digital Age: Acceptability of Gender Violence, Sexism, and Myths about Romantic Love
Domestic abuse is a gendered crime - Women’s Aid
Evidence of Gender Asymmetry in Intimate Partner Violence Experience at the Population-Level - PMC
About Intimate Partner Violence | Intimate Partner Violence Prevention | CDC
Statistically, how much domestic violence is against women versus against men? - Quora
Marital Violence and Coparenting Quality After Separation - PMC
Is It Abuse If It’s Not Physical? Understanding Coercive Control
Toxic Personality Traits: How They Can Impact Divorce Proceedings
Concordant and discordant alcohol, tobacco, and marijuana use as predictors of marital dissolution - PMC
Dyadic cannabis use, alcohol use and relationship satisfaction: A daily diary study - ScienceDirect
Associations Between Divorce and Onset of Drug Abuse in a Swedish National Sample - PMC
Divorce Rate by Income - Lawyer Monthly
Divorce Rates by Income Level - Buncher Family Law
Boom or Bust: Does the Economy Impact Your Divorce Decision?
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Average, Median, Top 1% Household Income Percentiles - DQYDJ
What is the Actual US Divorce Rate and Risk? - Public Discourse
When couples fight about money, what do they fight about? - PMC
For Richer, for Poorer: Money as a Topic of Marital Conflict in the Home - PMC
Divorce Study: Arguing about Money is the Top Predictor of Divorce
Differences in Financial Risk Preferences Can Make or Break a Marriage
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Foundations for Strong Families 201: Healthy Relationships and Financial Stability
Couples and Money: Let’s Talk About It | Oklahoma State University
Financial Issues With Your Partner—Doomed for Divorce?
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Re-Examining the Link Between Premarital Sex and Divorce - PMC
100 Questions to Ask Your Fiancé - Focus on the Family
Antecedents of Gray Divorce: A Life Course Perspective | The Journals of Gerontology: Series B | Oxford Academic
Gray divorce is on the rise, posing a risk to retirement security - InvestmentNews
Understanding the Impact of Premarital Counseling - LifeStance Health
Premarital Education and Later Relationship Help-seeking - PMC
Guide to the Best Premarital Counseling Approaches | Bay Area CBT Center
11 types of couples therapy + exercises | Ours
Premarital Counseling: Exploring Its Values, Types, and Benefits | SonderMind
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Recommendations for Promoting Healthy Marriages & Preventing Divorce in the American Muslim Community
Can Couples Counseling Prevent Divorce? | Psychology Today
The Association Between Shared Values and Well-Being Among Married Couples
Cultural and personal values interact to predict divorce - PMC
Frequently Asked Questions About: Asian Americans and Marriage
Relationship Risks in Context: A Cumulative Risk Approach to Understanding Relationship Satisfaction - PMC
Big Five personality domains and relationship satisfaction: Direct effects and correlated change over time - PMC
The relationship between personality traits and marital satisfaction: a systematic review and meta-analysis | BMC Psychology | Full Text
Can Personality Traits Increase the Risk of Divorce? | Population Europe
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Can Personality Traits Predict Divorce? - Free Big Five (OCEAN) Personality Test — Scientific Report | BigFive.ly
(PDF) Does divorce change your personality? Examining the effect of divorce occurrence on the Big Five personality traits using panel surveys from three countries
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Is divorce contagious? | Pew Research Center
Study Indicates That Divorce May Be “Contagious”
New Marriage and Divorce Statistics Released - Barna Group
What Percentage of Marriages End in Divorce?: An Examination of Divorce Rates and Their Correlates in the United States and California (2025) - Reel Fathers Rights
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Outwitting Divorce: How Intelligence Can Keep Couples Together
(PDF) The Relationship Between Intelligence and Divorce
Are Highly Intelligent People More Or Less Likely to Get Divorced?
(PDF) Is there a relation between divorce risk and intelligence? Evidence from the Netherlands?
Do smart people (140+ IQ) on average get divorced more than the rest of the population? - Quora
Will a High IQ Make You Less Likely To Marry?
Cognitive Decline After Divorce and Widowhood: Is Marital Loss Always a Loss? | Innovation in Aging | Oxford Academic
Why Does Parental Divorce Lower Children’s Educational Attainment? A Causal Mediation Analysis - PMC
Types of intelligence predict likelihood to get married and stay married: Large-scale empirical evidence for evolutionary theory - ScienceDirect
Reddit - The heart of the internet
The Relationship between Emotional Intelligence and Marital Satisfaction: 10-Year Outcome of Partners from Three Different Economic Levels - PMC
looks like divorce rates have no relation with... - Neeche Se Topper
What is the relationship between IQ and divorce rate? - Quora
Are Some People at Higher Risk of Divorce Than Others?
The Genetics of Divorce | Psychology Today
Rate and predictors of divorce among parents of youth with ADHD - PMC
Marriage survival against IQ | Download Scientific Diagram
The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life
‘The Bell Curve’, Explained: Part II, Cognitive Classes and Social Behavior | American Enterprise Institute - AEI
The Bell Curve Controversy
The Relationship Between Intelligence and Divorce - Paul Holley, Scott Yabiku, Mary Benin, 2006
Associations between cognitive function and marital status in the United States, South Africa, Mexico, and China - PMC
Marital status and reproduction: Associations with childhood intelligence and adult social class in the Aberdeen children of the 1950s study - ScienceDirect
IQ and Marriage: A Hidden Link? by Sophie Li | Published by Critical Debates in Humanities, Science and Global Justice
Why g Matters: The Complexity of Everyday Life
The Changing Impact of Education on Divorce and Break-up Risk | Institute for Family Studies
Evidence of correlations between human partners based on systematic reviews and meta-analyses of 22 traits and UK Biobank analysis of 133 traits - PMC
[Assortative mating in temperament and intelligence, and the role of marital satisfaction] - PubMed
Educational Assortative Mating and Divorce: A Longitudinal Analysis of the Influences of Education on the Divorce Rate for Different Educational Matches
Assortative Mating and Divorce: Evidence from Austrian Register Data
Full article: Assortative mating, marital stability and the role of business cycles in the United States from 1968 to 2011
The Reversed Gender Gap in Education and Assortative Mating in Europe - PMC
Education and Hypergamy in Marriage Markets
The End of Hypergamy: Global Trends and Implications - PMC
The Reversal of the Gender Gap in Education and Trends in Marital Dissolution - PMC
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