{"id":14541,"date":"2011-08-29T15:22:32","date_gmt":"2011-08-29T20:22:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/law.marquette.edu\/facultyblog\/?p=14541"},"modified":"2011-08-30T15:13:48","modified_gmt":"2011-08-30T20:13:48","slug":"divorce-is-for-the-masses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/law.marquette.edu\/facultyblog\/2011\/08\/divorce-is-for-the-masses\/","title":{"rendered":"Divorce Is for the Masses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Americans continue to divorce at a high rate, but divorce rates have gotten smaller in recent years.\u00a0 This is especially true for the professional\/managerial class.\u00a0 According to a study by the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia, only 11% of college-educated Americans are now divorcing within the first 10 years of marriage, compared with almost 37% for the rest of the population.\u00a0 It appears that college\u2013educated Americans, who in general are more politically and socially liberal, are developing a greater commitment to getting and staying married.<\/p>\n<p>This trend has economic ramifications and, in particular, contributes to growing disparities in wealth distribution.\u00a0 In this day and age, both husband and wife are likely to work for pay outside the home, and two-income households are usually better off than single-income households.\u00a0 It\u2019s further proof, I guess, of the way the private family sphere is always intertwined within the public market sphere.<\/p>\n<p>For more discussion of the topic, <em>see <\/em>Pamela Paul, \u201cHow Divorce Lost Its Cachet,\u201d <em>New York Times<\/em>, 17 June \u201911, Styles 1:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/06\/19\/fashion\/how-divorce-lost-its-cachet.html?pagewanted=all\">http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/06\/19\/fashion\/how-divorce-lost-its-cachet.html?pagewanted=all<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Americans continue to divorce at a high rate, but divorce rates have 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