World Changes in Divorce Patterns

By: William J. Goode

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Hardcover | 25 June 1997 | Edition Number 1

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This authoritative book examines current trends in divorce throughout the world, analyzing hitherto inaccessible information on Asian and Arab countries and Eastern Europe, as well as data from Latin America, Western Europe, and the Anglo countries. William J. Goode asserts that these trends over the past four decades challenge previous theories, including his own, first offered in his classic World Revolution and Family Patterns.

Among the topics Goode discusses are how divorce rates in different countries are affected by industrialization, dictatorship, civic standards for nations, and easier divorce laws; the relations between divorce and such factors as age and class; the meaning of the worldwide rise in cohabitation; and why people are becoming less likely to remarry.

In all these divorce systems he points to the problems caused by divorce: how to get child support from ex-husbands, the increase in mother-headed families (even in Arab countries), and the scanty help (if any) governments give to such families. He argues that modern countries with high rates must learn an important lesson from what he calls traditional "stable high-divorce-rate" systems--that divorce is part of the system, and that we must create and support social norms (not only laws) that reduce its harsh effects.

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Preface and Acknowledgments
The Cross-National Analysis of Changes in Divorce Patterns	p. 1
Divorce in Europe: Emergence of the General Pattern	p. 25
Southern European Catholic Countries: The Recent Permission to Divorce	p. 54
The Nordic Countries: Public Programs for Dealing with the Consequences of Divorce	p. 79
Eastern Europe: Polities as Agents of Marital Dissolution	p. 110
The Anglo Countries: The Common-Law Tradition in Different Settings	p. 135
Latin America: A Regional System of Formal and Informal Divorce	p. 183
Stable High-Divorce-Rate Systems and Their Decline: Japan and Malaysia	p. 214
The Arab World: Internal Changes with Few Clear Trends in Divorce Rates	p. 251
Three Patterns of Declining Divorce Rates in Asia: Under Industrial Growth in Indonesia and Taiwan and under Strong Governmental Intervention in China	p. 280
Conclusion and Further Themes	p. 318
Index	p. 347
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