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'These Boots are Made for Walking': Why Most Divorce Filers are Women
American Law and Economics Review ^ | 2000 | Margaret Friedlander Brinig, Douglas Allen

Posted on 09/06/2005 11:05:03 AM PDT by ExitPurgamentum

by Margaret Friedlander Brinig, Douglas Allen

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'These Boots are Made for Walking': Why Most Divorce Filers are Women


MARGARET F. BRINIG
University of Iowa, College of Law
DOUGLAS W. ALLEN
Simon Fraser University



 

 
Abstract:     
Because of the financial and social hardship faced after divorce, most people assume that generally husbands have instigated divorce since the introduction of no-fault divorce. Yet women file for divorce and are often the instigators of separation, despite a deep attachment to their children and the evidence that many divorces harm children. Furthermore, divorced women in large numbers reveal that they are happier than they were while married. They report relief and certainty that they were right in leaving their marriages. This fundamental puzzle suggests that the incentives to divorce require a reexamination, and that the forces affecting the net benefits from marriage may be quite complicated, and perhaps asymmetric between men and women. This paper considers women's filing as rational behavior, based on spouses' relative power in the marriage, their opportunities following divorce, and their anticipation of custody.



TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Extended News; Government
KEYWORDS: divorce; women
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To: Xenophon450

Amen. Dontcha just wanna strangle Hillary Clintoon?


321 posted on 09/06/2005 8:21:41 PM PDT by Hi Heels (Guns kill and cause crime? Dang, mine must be malfunctioning....)
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To: Hi Heels

LOL let me know when he gives you the house and we'll throw a party! : )


322 posted on 09/06/2005 8:22:17 PM PDT by Rose of Sharn (I get the best answers when i talk to myself!)
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To: Rose of Sharn

I think we'd better pack a real big lunch! HAHAHahhhaaa.. You're great. Thanks.


323 posted on 09/06/2005 8:25:01 PM PDT by Hi Heels (Guns kill and cause crime? Dang, mine must be malfunctioning....)
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To: Hi Heels

: D


324 posted on 09/06/2005 8:26:27 PM PDT by Rose of Sharn (I get the best answers when i talk to myself!)
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To: Hi Heels

You wouldnt beileve how many here speak about hillary as she could do no wrong...ok your from california I repeal that statement. I think witches need to be burned at the stake ;)


325 posted on 09/06/2005 8:27:01 PM PDT by Xenophon450
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To: CharacterCounts

Most men are more tolerant of a bad marriage than women. They have other outlets, in work, and play, and because they are better at compartmentalization. That is the reason.


326 posted on 09/06/2005 8:28:01 PM PDT by Torie
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To: Hi Heels; All

Well I'm outa here..........I'm nearly burning the midnight oil! G'night all!


327 posted on 09/06/2005 8:29:08 PM PDT by Rose of Sharn (I get the best answers when i talk to myself!)
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To: Hi Heels
I'll give you a house...

but it's 85 years old and in rural SC.

.

The taxes are due in November.

328 posted on 09/06/2005 8:29:27 PM PDT by SC Swamp Fox (Aim small, miss small.)
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To: SC Swamp Fox
DONE.
329 posted on 09/06/2005 8:31:34 PM PDT by Hi Heels (Guns kill and cause crime? Dang, mine must be malfunctioning....)
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To: Hi Heels
Oh crap.

I was counting on the fact you love CA.

I guess I'll have to add you to the long, but distinguished, list of women I have disappointed.

330 posted on 09/06/2005 8:34:56 PM PDT by SC Swamp Fox (Aim small, miss small.)
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To: Hi Heels
As for Me, I never make categorical statements!

Oh, Ahem, Excuse me, my wife is calling...

Yes Dear...
331 posted on 09/06/2005 8:39:25 PM PDT by DelphiUser ("You can lead a man to knowledge, but you can't make him think")
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To: narby
Get a divorce, get a check.

Wow! I just have to compliment you. You are really, really good at generalization. So good, in fact, that I'm going to suggest to Merriam-Webster that 'narby' is a synonym for 'generalize'.

332 posted on 09/06/2005 8:40:15 PM PDT by arasina (So there.)
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To: Rose of Sharn

You seem to be the rare exception these days! But I'm glad to know there are women who still think that way. And no it is not demeaning to do those things. Like I said it is all about choices. Once one makes a choice, so mote it be! It is all the caterwalling after a bad choice is made and the casting of blame that gets me.


333 posted on 09/06/2005 8:46:27 PM PDT by samm1148
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To: SC Swamp Fox
oh, I DO love California. I love the ocean. I love to surf. I love going to an Orchid farm then a wine tasting then down the coast to a little restaurant where you cook your own steaks. I love to walk with my daughter in the surf finding sand dollars and telling her the story of the sand dollar. I love showing her where I grew up. I love going down in the barranca of Thousand Oaks where no one knows how to go if you ain't old boy and showing her the old swimming hole. I love living near my old high school. I'd really love it if we could move the whole thing somewhere where people are in love with their country. People who go to church. People who love their kids. I'm sorry. I get the property. You promised.

PS: Any jobs?

334 posted on 09/06/2005 8:48:04 PM PDT by Hi Heels (Guns kill and cause crime? Dang, mine must be malfunctioning....)
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To: Hi Heels

Ummmmm, I'm simple and straight...


335 posted on 09/06/2005 8:57:07 PM PDT by null and void (Does my life *really* need a sarcasm tag????)
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To: repinwi
A good marriage requires two people who are committed to the same thing.

My ex was committed. It wasn't until well after we were married that I found out not all that time she'd spent in mental institutions was as a staff member...

336 posted on 09/06/2005 9:01:52 PM PDT by null and void (Does my life *really* need a sarcasm tag????)
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To: Hi Heels

FOFLOL!


337 posted on 09/06/2005 9:07:56 PM PDT by null and void (Does my life *really* need a sarcasm tag????)
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To: Xenophon450
I think witches need to be burned at the stake ;)

Not all of them...

338 posted on 09/06/2005 9:08:59 PM PDT by null and void (Does my life *really* need a sarcasm tag????)
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To: null and void

funkle?


339 posted on 09/06/2005 9:13:17 PM PDT by null and void (Does my life *really* need a sarcasm tag????)
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To: ExitPurgamentum

BTTT! ...good post. All who are interested should download the document and read it.

As for the ugly thread after your good post, we can see that true conservatism is dead in both political parties. Even our congressmen have rebelled against our Constitution (re. the VAWA, Child Support Act and other treasonous violations) to please a horde of loose feminists and their immoral sugar daddies. Our country and markets have become a house of prostitution. I have no respect at all for our "elite" as they continue to destroy families.

Fathers: Drop the Vote in 2008! Be nonpolitical!


340 posted on 09/07/2005 12:38:42 AM PDT by familyop ("Let us try" sounds better, don't you think? "Essayons" is so...Latin.)
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