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Family Practice Vol. 9, No. 4, 451-460
© Oxford University Press 1992

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Divorce: Different Experiences of Men and Women

MARIE WADSBY and CARL GÖRAN SVEDIN

Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Faculty of Health Sciences S-581 85 Linköping, Sweden

Demographic variables, the reasons for the divorce, the changes as a consequence of the divorce and the differences between the sexes were studied among 157 Swedish-speaking spouses through interviews and assessments on visual analogue scales. The results showed that various conflicts were the main reason for the divorce in half of the families. Compared to men, women came significantly more often from broken homes, were the initiators of the divorce in most cases, and felt that the marriage had been dissatisfying for a significantly longer time period. Self-employed men were significantly overrepresented. The changes as a consequence of the divorce were significantly different for men and women in several areas, in most cases in favour of the women.


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