Since the 1960’s, men’s contribution around the house has doubled from 15% to 30%. A recent study by the The Council on Contemporary Families at the University of Illinois, Chicago shows more husbands are willingly sharing the responsibility of housework and childcare.
The study also shows the longer a wife is employed, the more her […]
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 […]
Law21 has a great post on the future we are quickly headed toward where family courts are filled mostly with litigants that do not have lawyers. This future is fast approaching as the cost of legal services exceeds the budgets of most families. Unfortunately, we don’t have a system that works especially well for non-lawyers. […]
I just read an interesting article in the Wall Street Journal about women who hold professional degrees and their respective rate of divorce.
According to a soon-to-be-published study by Washington & Lee University School of Law Prof. Robin Fretwell Wilson, women with M.B.A.s are twice as more likely to divorce than men.
The study surveyed over […]
Why do people commit adultery? Edward Everett Hale, a Centennial Professor In Economics and Freakonomics guest blogger, says that economics may hold the answer.
It’s a term called hyperbolic discounting and it’s used to describe the human tendency to overemphasize current pleasure and pain in comparing actions at different points in time. Economists use […]