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From: uunet!mailrus!sharkey!hela!iti.org!dhw@ncar.ucar.EDU ("David H. West")
Newsgroups: soc.feminism
Subject: Re: Post-divorce quality of life
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Date: 6 Dec 90 21:20:46 GMT
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In article <kaveh.658769285@s.ms.uky.edu> kaveh@ms.uky.edu (Kaveh Baharestan) writes:
| A while back I got some stats on divores.  The man's quality
| of living goes up 30% and the woman's (who usually has the
| kids) goes down 60%.  Note: I could be wrong on the
| percentages but I am not wrong on the unevenness of quality
| of living. ...

Hmm.  Anyone have corresponding figures broken down by kids/no kids?
Anyone have corresponding figures for the effect of *marriage* on
standard of living?

-David West    dhw@iti.org