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Divorce: he’s richer, she’s poorer
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Divorce makes men richer and women poorer. The finding has astonished researchers involved in a major study of the effects over time on the partners of a failed marriage, and confounds the common belief that both partners suffer financially. The research tracked 10,000 people over a decade and found that men’s disposable income increases by an average of 15 per cent after divorce, while women see theirs fall by around 28 per cent, mirroring the average gain they experience on marrying. ‘Men bring more, economically speaking, to relationships and walk away with more, too,’ said Dr Jonathan Scales, a research fellow at the Institute of Social and Economic Research, which carries out the British Household Panel Survey with the University of Essex. ‘This is the first time the effect of divorce on the same group of people has ever been tracked over a long period of time, and we were amazed by the results,’ said Scales. The survey, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council with the support of the Future Foundation, returned each year from 1991 to question the same group of people about the effect on their lives of issues from the state of the labour market to workplace stress. The sharp difference in earnings between the sexes partly explains why women see their incomes fall so dramatically after divorce. Unmarried women earn, on average, around 14 per cent less than male colleagues. ‘There are also certainly divorced men who are getting their children brought up on the cheap,’ said Scales, citing the Child Support Agency’s report that only 48 per cent of absent fathers regularly pay full child support, while 29 per cent pay nothing at all. More : observer.guardian.co.uk |
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