Posted on 07/10/2005 9:02:54 PM PDT by Crackingham
Women working full-time are 29 per cent more likely to get divorced than those who stay at home and raise children. Research to be published this week in the European Sociological Review finds that the probability of divorce is in direct correlation to the number of hours a woman worked.
Marilyn Stowe, a female divorce lawyer, suggested that working women had the economic freedom to consider life beyond marriage.
She added that they had greater confidence in their ability to make new friends and find new partners. "You suggest going out to work to a woman who has been at home for 15 years and their response is often that of horror," she said. With both partners increasingly going out to work, the findings go some way to explain the country's rising divorce rate.
Sure jives with my own experience.
That's why my husband feels it is important to grow together in our relationship.
Guess that means that men need to figure out a better value proposition than just being a paycheck....
LOL, welcome to an expanding club.
But, I guess a woman that does that is a "hero", a man who does that is a "cad".
Bad, bad divorcing men. Heroic divorcing women.
No. I think they just get tired and stressed. Not many women I know work all day, come home and veg out in front of the tv while waiting for someone to serve them dinner. It's not Freedom.
I wonder why they say this. Where would a non-working woman go after a divorce? I mean seriously...if she had no parents or close friends?
Pity they didn't also compare rates of adultery for working wives vs non-working wives.
There's a lot more temptation cruising in the workplace than there is staying home with the kids.
I hear men complaining that they don't want to be viewed as just a paycheck, but the fact is when they are the sole paycheck, the more likely their wife is to appreciate them for it.
I hear men complaining that they don't want to be viewed as just a paycheck, but the fact is when they are the sole paycheck, the more likely their wife is to appreciate them for it.
Or resented for it.
You haven't met my wife then.
"Or resented for it."
Doesn't jive with the study, non-working wives are the least likely to divorce. If they resented their husbands for earning a paycheck, wouldn't they just get a job and a divorce?
My ex didn't work in the 10 years before our divorce and she sure hasn't worked since.
"I wonder why they say this. Where would a non-working woman go after a divorce? I mean seriously...if she had no parents or close friends?"
Well, gosh, for starters, to the house she'd gotten in the divorce and the kids she'd gotten custody of, or the myriad support groups for divorced women.
Or was that the answer you were looking for?
Nobody has yet pointed out that it's also possible that the correlation between work and divorce is an indicator that working women are more likely to divorce for other reasons, for example, it's possible that women are not willing to work as hard at a marriage when they have a career, or that men are not willing to sacrifice as much for a partner who "wants it all," or that the women who keep their job after they marry are simply not as likely to have the physical characteristics or personality that men find admirable in a wife over the long haul, or that women who marry and keep their jobs are less likely to be satisfied by any men.
Flame away. I'm just pointing out that nothing here seems to exclude any of those possible reasons for the correlation--and I can't see any reason for asking a divorce lawyer to analyze a sociological study other than media bias against marriage.
It is easier to rob unarmed people.
Working women often don't care as much about their children as do women who sacrifice to stay home and raise their children.
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