Demographers are referring to the Second Demographic Transition, where the increase in divorce in the 1960’s and the trend for people to marry or remarry later in life has increased the potential for wider martial age gaps.
According to 2006 Census data, roughly one-third of husbands are at least four years older than their wives.
And a [...]
According to a recent investigation by the Equal Rights Center, victims of domestic violence in Washington D.C. often face discrimination when seeking rental housing. One year ago a law was passed in the District to protect victims from housing discrimination.
The study revealed 65 percent of victims who sought housing in the District were either denied [...]
Some experts are concluding that divorce is neither good nor bad. Allen Li, associate director of the Population Research Center at the RAND Corporation in Santa Monica, California, says it depends on the individual marriages and the family.
Though Li’s findings contrast with a lot of research on the effects divorce has on children. Some [...]
In an effort to reduce domestic violence in the workplace in Ohio, a new executive order has been put into action by Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland.
The new order is called the Barbara Warner Workplace Domestic Violence Policy, named after an employee of the Ohio Department of Health who was killed in 1997 by her husband.
Are [...]
According to reports from the National Domestic Violence Hotline, 324,000 women each year experience intimate partner violence during their pregnancy. And 30 percent of these women say the first violent incident happens while they’re pregnant.
Especially when there is an unwanted pregnancy, controlling men often suffer from storms of anger and commit acts of violence.
The [...]
1895 was the year of the first showing of Oscar Wilde’s last play The Importance of Being Earnest, and its also the date that’s being used to show the decline in marriages in England and Wales.
According to the Office of National Statistics, marriage in England and Wales is the lowest since 1895.
Some say they aren’t [...]