At a time when divorces have become almost as common as weddings and where union members for life are becoming more and more rare, one wonders what, around us, has led to the trivialization of an approach, once forbidden. That's why a study looked at the main reason for the divorce. Discover their results!
Since the promulgation of the law that, in the name of freedom, legalized divorce and that we owe to the movement of enlightenment, gender equality has only progressed, for better or for worse ...
Sometimes for the worse because, for Helen Andelin, a specialist in relations between men and women in the couple: "never in history have we known a generation of women as disillusioned, disappointed and unhappy in marriage as the current generation. "
This advances the statistical studies
From a statistical point of view, a marriage today is more likely to result in a divorce when the husband does not have a full-time job. This is the case of a Harvard University study, conducted in August 2016 by Alexandra Killewald, researcher and professor of sociology. It conducted the study on more than 6,300 pairs, examined and followed in the United States between 1968 and 2013; a sample that it separated into two groups: in the first, couples married before 1975, and in the second those who were married after.
Sharing household chores
The conclusions of this study are that for the older generation and among the multitude of factors studied, the greatest risk of a marriage was that the sharing of household chores between spouses was egalitarian. Women's work at home played a significant role because when she performed three quarters of housework, the risk of divorce state 1%, against 1.5% when she was only half, a gap which tightened, then reversed after 1975.
Husbands' livelihood
Many believe that the generalization of women's work outside the home, and thereby their financial independence, plays an important role in the remarkable increase in the rate of divorce experienced in the nineteenth century. However, among the full sample of the study, the odds of divorce remain stable regardless of whether the woman has a job or not. It is rather the work of the husband who, regardless of the income level of the latter, a notorious influence, and this, especially for the most recent weddings. For example, a couple in which the husband works full-time has a probability of breaking up to 2.5%, compared with 3.3% when the husband is only employed part-time or does not work.
Thus, according to the sociologist, it is the division of labor between spouses that, more than the financial resources they have, is linked to the risk of divorce of a couple. Moreover, from a societal point of view and to the question of what could have led to such a fragile marriage, some elements of the answer lie in what Professor Killewald alluded to as "profound social and economic changes had taken place within the family ".
What to think of that?
Although these figures may seem insignificant, it seems undeniable from this study that a precarious employment situation such as the loss of a job can not tell us precisely why in France a married couple has a 45% chance to divorce.
Added to this are the multiple causes of divorce such as infidelity, lack of feelings, lack of affection, abusive behavior, verbal and physical abuse, family problems and disagreements about the future vision of the couple. and life.
