How Divorce Works 【離婚】
Lee Ann Obringer /作 愛俐思 /譯
Chances are, we all know someone who is divorced -- probably several someones. In 2000, there were over 957,200 finalized divorces in the United States. The U.S. Census Bureau says that 50 percent of all marriages entered into today will end in divorce. That's a lot of broken homes, heartaches and paperwork, not to mention money spent on attorney fees and court costs.
But, some say those percentages of future doomed marriages have to be interpreted based on other factors. Barbara Whitehead and David Popenoe's "The State of Our Unions" (2004) says that there are several important social factors that affect that 50 percent estimate. For example, your risk of divorce decreases by:
* 30 percent if your annual income is more than $50,000
* 24 percent if you had a baby more than seven months after you got
married
* 24 percent if you were over 25 when you got married
In this article, we'll find out why divorces are easier to get now than they used to be and learn about the types of divorce, what the procedures are and what's involved in the final divorce agreement.
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我們可能都認識離過婚的朋友，而且可能不止認識一位。美國在2000年有超過957,200人的婚姻最後以離婚收場。美國人口調查局表示，現在結婚的新人可能有一半會離婚。離婚意謂著破碎的家庭，傷心的家人與書面文件之處理，以及花在律師費與法院費用的開銷。
但有些人認為，這些預言未來婚姻必亡的比例應以其他因素來評估。懷特海德女士和波皮諾先生在「婚姻狀況」（2004）一書提到：有幾項重要的社會因素會影響離婚率為50％的評估。舉例來說：
* 如果你的年收入超過$50,000美元，你的離婚風險會降低30％。
* 如果你結婚後超過7個月才有寶寶，離婚風險會降低24％。
* 如果你超過25歲才結婚，離婚風險亦降低24％。
接下來請點閱
http://www.howstuffworks.com/divorce.htm，讓我們一起探討為何現在離婚比以前容易，看看幾種不同的離婚方式，了解其過程，以及離婚協議書所牽涉的內容與議題。
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