Rising inflation and falling house prices put pressure on marriages and might thus contribute to higher divorce rates.

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Marriage rates are lower, divorce rates are higher, crime rates are higher and civic participation is lower in the poorest American cities than in the wealthiest.

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If divorce rates are higher for "career girls", it probably IS because they expect more from life and from their mates.

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Divorce has been positively correlated with higher rates of alcoholism, clinical depression and suicide.

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