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Divorce: two reports.


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Marital agreements are contracts that are entered into by individuals who are about to be married, are already married, or are in the process of ending a marriage.
 wealth in the January 2006 Journal of Sociology. His study illustrates that a married person accumulates nearly twice as much personal wealth as one who is single or divorced.

Divorced persons lose on average 75 percent of their personal net worth. In basic terms the advantage comes from the fact that one household is cheaper to maintain than two separate ones (Canoe.ca, Jan. 19, 2006).

A book from the Institute of American Values' scholar Elizabeth Marquart, Between Two Worlds: The Inner Lives of Children of Divorce, reports on the "emotional, moral and spiritual lives of the first generation of young people to grow up in an era of widespread divorce."

Based on interviews with 1,500 adults, she posits that there is no such thing as a "good" divorce (where the separation is amicable am·i·ca·ble  
adj.
Characterized by or exhibiting friendliness or goodwill; friendly.



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). The children from such settlements function less well than those raised in happy marriages (LSN LSN Learning and Skills Network (UK)
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