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Title: Economic Consequences of Marital Disruption for Women in Their Middle Years
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1. Shaw, Lois B.
Economic Consequences of Marital Disruption for Women in Their Middle Years
Report, Columbus OH: Center for Human Resource Research, The Ohio State University, 1978
Cohort(s): Mature Women
Publisher: Center for Human Resource Research
Keyword(s): Children; Family Resources; Marital Disruption; Poverty

The probability of becoming poor in our society is markedly increased by marital disruption. In the present study, most women had been married for 10 to 20 years and had children at home when their marriages ended. The end of the marriage caused a decline in the average economic welfare of the families involved. About one quarter of white families and 55 percent of black families of these middle-aged women had incomes below the poverty line after their marriages ended.
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Shaw, Lois B. "Economic Consequences of Marital Disruption for Women in Their Middle Years." Report, Columbus OH: Center for Human Resource Research, The Ohio State University, 1978.