FAD EXAM 100% COMPLETE
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT DETAILED
ANSWERS (VERIFIED ANSWERS)
|ALREADY GRADED A+
What percentage of married couples can expect to have their marriages dissolve? -
Answers - ✔✔40-50%
What is the crude divorce rate?
What was it in 2009 and what is the problem with it? - Answers - ✔✔Divorces per 1,000
people in a population
U.S. 2009 - 3.4 divorces/1000 people
Problem: many people aren't married
What is the defined divorce rate? What was it in 2009? - Answers - ✔✔Number of
divorced individuals per married women ages 15+. U.S. 2009 - 16.9 divorces per 1,000
The divorce rate went from ___ to ___ over 20 years. - Answers - ✔✔9.2 to 22.8
The divorce rate settled to ___ from ____ around 1997. - Answers - ✔✔19.8 from 22.8
What factors binding strength has lessened, causing divorces? - Answers -
✔✔Economic interdependence, social, legal and moral constraints and spouse's
relationship
What are three economic factors that contribute to divorce? - Answers - ✔✔Wives in the
labor force, independence factor and income effect
Who said spouses weigh their marital happiness against alternatives to the marriage, as
well as barriers to divorce? - Answers - ✔✔Levinger
Are people happier after a divorce? - Answers - ✔✔No. Divorced people have lower
levels of life satisfaction and those in unhappy marriages tend to be more depressed
than divorced individuals.
Emotional divorce - Answers - ✔✔-One spouse generally initiates divorce
-Initiators have advantage for preparing break up
-Initiator may alter other aspect (baby, job)
-Divorcing spouses may disagree on who initiator is
Legal divorce - Answers - ✔✔Divide, child support agreement, lawyers-$15k per person
, Psychic Divorce - Answers - ✔✔Process of regaining psychological autonomy and
feeling whole again
Economic divorce - Answers - ✔✔Causes decline in women's income & slight decline in
men's during divorce
How many women become impoverished compared to men after divorce? - Answers -
✔✔1 in 5 compared to 1 in 13
One year after divorce, women's income was ___% of men's but still 2x as likely to be
impoverished - Answers - ✔✔80
4 years after divorce, women's average income reached ___% of men's - Answers -
✔✔85
What are some economic consequences of divorce for men and women? - Answers -
✔✔Women are the losers, men and women's unequal wages, "equitable" division of
property on divorce, more women are working and child support
What are problems for children? - Answers - ✔✔Fighting in front of the kids, fighting
through the kids, conflicting loyalty and kid's knowledge of divorce issues
What percentage of kids had long-term problems compared to the 10% of parents who
had not divorced? - Answers - ✔✔25%
What percentage of kids were coping well from divorce? - Answers - ✔✔75-80%
1/__ of married people have been divorced - Answers - ✔✔1/3
U.S. Divorce rate is __X Mexico, __X China and 40-50% higher than Japan and
Germany - Answers - ✔✔5X & 2X
Was legal divorce rare before 1850? - Answers - ✔✔Yes but married couples with
problems deserted each other
Why did divorce rate begin to rise by mid 19th century? - Answers - ✔✔Because it was
easier for women to obtain a divorce
The divorce rate rose steadily between ____ & ____ but ______ during the Great
Depression of the 1930s. - Answers - ✔✔1860 & 1940
By 1946, divorce rate peaked at ___ divorces per 1,000 women. (Higher than today) -
Answers - ✔✔18
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT DETAILED
ANSWERS (VERIFIED ANSWERS)
|ALREADY GRADED A+
What percentage of married couples can expect to have their marriages dissolve? -
Answers - ✔✔40-50%
What is the crude divorce rate?
What was it in 2009 and what is the problem with it? - Answers - ✔✔Divorces per 1,000
people in a population
U.S. 2009 - 3.4 divorces/1000 people
Problem: many people aren't married
What is the defined divorce rate? What was it in 2009? - Answers - ✔✔Number of
divorced individuals per married women ages 15+. U.S. 2009 - 16.9 divorces per 1,000
The divorce rate went from ___ to ___ over 20 years. - Answers - ✔✔9.2 to 22.8
The divorce rate settled to ___ from ____ around 1997. - Answers - ✔✔19.8 from 22.8
What factors binding strength has lessened, causing divorces? - Answers -
✔✔Economic interdependence, social, legal and moral constraints and spouse's
relationship
What are three economic factors that contribute to divorce? - Answers - ✔✔Wives in the
labor force, independence factor and income effect
Who said spouses weigh their marital happiness against alternatives to the marriage, as
well as barriers to divorce? - Answers - ✔✔Levinger
Are people happier after a divorce? - Answers - ✔✔No. Divorced people have lower
levels of life satisfaction and those in unhappy marriages tend to be more depressed
than divorced individuals.
Emotional divorce - Answers - ✔✔-One spouse generally initiates divorce
-Initiators have advantage for preparing break up
-Initiator may alter other aspect (baby, job)
-Divorcing spouses may disagree on who initiator is
Legal divorce - Answers - ✔✔Divide, child support agreement, lawyers-$15k per person
, Psychic Divorce - Answers - ✔✔Process of regaining psychological autonomy and
feeling whole again
Economic divorce - Answers - ✔✔Causes decline in women's income & slight decline in
men's during divorce
How many women become impoverished compared to men after divorce? - Answers -
✔✔1 in 5 compared to 1 in 13
One year after divorce, women's income was ___% of men's but still 2x as likely to be
impoverished - Answers - ✔✔80
4 years after divorce, women's average income reached ___% of men's - Answers -
✔✔85
What are some economic consequences of divorce for men and women? - Answers -
✔✔Women are the losers, men and women's unequal wages, "equitable" division of
property on divorce, more women are working and child support
What are problems for children? - Answers - ✔✔Fighting in front of the kids, fighting
through the kids, conflicting loyalty and kid's knowledge of divorce issues
What percentage of kids had long-term problems compared to the 10% of parents who
had not divorced? - Answers - ✔✔25%
What percentage of kids were coping well from divorce? - Answers - ✔✔75-80%
1/__ of married people have been divorced - Answers - ✔✔1/3
U.S. Divorce rate is __X Mexico, __X China and 40-50% higher than Japan and
Germany - Answers - ✔✔5X & 2X
Was legal divorce rare before 1850? - Answers - ✔✔Yes but married couples with
problems deserted each other
Why did divorce rate begin to rise by mid 19th century? - Answers - ✔✔Because it was
easier for women to obtain a divorce
The divorce rate rose steadily between ____ & ____ but ______ during the Great
Depression of the 1930s. - Answers - ✔✔1860 & 1940
By 1946, divorce rate peaked at ___ divorces per 1,000 women. (Higher than today) -
Answers - ✔✔18
