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Direct linkPoortman, Anne-Rigt – Journal of Family Issues, 2005
This study examines whether the financial and time pressures associated with spouses' working lives play a role in the relation between work and divorce during the first years of marriage. Using retrospective data from the Netherlands, the results show that divorce is more likely when the husband works on average fewer hours and the wife more…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Spouses, Marriage, Financial Problems
