«Offering support services to spousal caregivers may reduce marital strain and prevent
divorce at older ages,» she said.
There is less time to recover from the financial impact of
a divorce at an older age.
Not exact matches
A greater percentage of
older couples are getting
divorced and are
at an
age when they are more likely to have annuities.
But, that was decades ago, and some stuff has happened since then — a
divorce, years as a more - confident young single woman, a second marriage, another
divorce, being single with kids in my late 40s, having a few committed relationships
at midlife and finding myself single again
at an
age that feels, well probably is,
old.
The number of years that respondents who marry
at older ages are in the survey is relatively short, so it is not possible to know whether these marriages will, in time, end in
divorce or will continue.
Couples are marrying
at older and
older ages, official statistics show, and the drop in the likelihood of
divorce suggests they are more committed to staying together than has been the case for married couples in recent decades.
Adolescents whose parents
divorced when they were 5 years
old or younger were
at a particularly high risk for becoming sexually active prior to the
age of 16.
In 1990,
at age 47, Weil married for the first time, but
divorced last year — his former wife, Sabine Kremp, 7 - year -
old daughter, Diana, and three stepchildren now live in Utah.
Writing in the journal Neurobiology of
Aging, a research team, led by senior author William S. Kremen, PhD, professor of psychiatry and co-director of the Center for Behavior Genetics of Aging at UC San Diego School of Medicine, found that major adverse events in life, such as divorce, separation, miscarriage or death of a family member or friend, can measurably accelerate aging in the brains of older men, even when controlling for such factors as cardiovascular risk, alcohol consumption, ethnicity and socioeconomic status, which are all associated with aging
Aging, a research team, led by senior author William S. Kremen, PhD, professor of psychiatry and co-director of the Center for Behavior Genetics of
Aging at UC San Diego School of Medicine, found that major adverse events in life, such as divorce, separation, miscarriage or death of a family member or friend, can measurably accelerate aging in the brains of older men, even when controlling for such factors as cardiovascular risk, alcohol consumption, ethnicity and socioeconomic status, which are all associated with aging
Aging at UC San Diego School of Medicine, found that major adverse events in life, such as
divorce, separation, miscarriage or death of a family member or friend, can measurably accelerate
aging in the brains of older men, even when controlling for such factors as cardiovascular risk, alcohol consumption, ethnicity and socioeconomic status, which are all associated with aging
aging in the brains of
older men, even when controlling for such factors as cardiovascular risk, alcohol consumption, ethnicity and socioeconomic status, which are all associated with
aging aging risk.
Married for 35 years with no children, and nearing the
age of 60, she has just been informed by her faithful husband —
at least as far as she knows — that he wants, not a
divorce, but her consent to an affair he's determined to have with a 28 - year -
old statistician.
Couples in New York also marry
at an
older age, which means they are more likely to be successful one of the most common reasons for
divorce is marrying too young.
In contrast, getting married before
age 20 makes
divorce four times as likely compared to a couple that waits until they are
at least 20 years
old.
All of that makes the financial consequences of
divorce significantly more damaging for
older divorcing couples than for those who
divorce at a younger
age.
According to the National Center for Health Statistics, 59 % of first marriages between couples who are18 years of
age or younger end in
divorce within the first fifteen years while only 35 % of those between couples who get married
at the
age of 25 or
older end in a
divorce within that same time period.
And these percentages include
divorces occurring
at all
ages and stages of life, e.g. among the short - term - married and childless, as well as
older couples whose children are grown.
Torvik and colleagues examined couples
aged 20 and
older in Norway and found that concordant abstainers and concordant heavy drinkers (e.g., drinking 10 or more times over 2 weeks and endorsed
at least one indicator of hazardous drinking) had lower
divorce rates, but that among discordant drinkers, heavy drinking only among wives was a stronger predictor of
divorce than heavy drinking only among husbands (Torvik, Røysamb, Gustavson, Idstad, & Tambs, 2013).