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Who Left Whom, and How They Fared, From the Wallerstein Study
From the study of 60 middle-class families in the San Francisco area
come the following statistics about which partner left, and how they
did afterward.
All these numbers must be taken with a grain of salt. The sample was
very small and surely not a cross-section of the nation.
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About 65 percent of the men were leavers; 35 percent of the women.
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However, about half of the women age 40 and older at separation were the "leaving party."
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By and large, the spouse who wanted the divorce is doing well ten years later.
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In most of the cases of the women who divorced in their 20's,
the divorce was initiated by the women, essentially because the men
were not sufficiently mature for marriage.
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