Study Examines Military Divorce Rates

Week of April 23, 2007

A yearlong study by the Rand Corp. recently found that divorce in America's military is no higher now than it was during peacetime a decade ago. The student found that divorces from 2.5 percent of military marriages in 2001 to 3 percent in 2005, which is far short of a Pentagon theory that marriage breakups had soared due to the strain of fighting the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. For more information, download and read the full study report "Families Under Stress - An Assessment of Data, Theory, and Research on Marriage and Divorce in the Military" in a .pdf file.

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