Sentences with phrase «california marriages end in divorce»

Over half of all California marriages end in divorce.

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The first no - fault divorce statute was drafted in California by a legislator who had ended a 25 - year marriage to wed a younger woman; of the 14 assemblymen who testified for the law, ten were divorced.

In fact, when Gottman and University of California at Berkeley psychologist Robert Levenson lumped stonewalling together with three other behaviors — contempt, criticism, and defensiveness — and measured how often they occurred within the span of a 15 - minute conversation, they found they could predict which marriages would end in divorce with striking precisioIn fact, when Gottman and University of California at Berkeley psychologist Robert Levenson lumped stonewalling together with three other behaviors — contempt, criticism, and defensiveness — and measured how often they occurred within the span of a 15 - minute conversation, they found they could predict which marriages would end in divorce with striking precisioin divorce with striking precision.

Divorce rates in the United States have increased over the last 30 years to a point where today it is estimated that nearly half of all current first marriages will end in divorce.The numbers are even higher in states like California, where over 60 % of first marriages are reported to end in divorces.