In a research brief from the Council on Contemporary Families, University of Chicago’s Patrick Heuveline explains how divorce rates get calculated. If you ever report on divorce rates, this article will give you confidence in how you interpret them, and will show you the key questions to ask your sources when they are reporting on divorce statistics.
Topics of Expertise: Couples Conflict, Separation & Divorce
Executive Director, The Melissa Institute for Violence Prevention and Treatment, University of Miami
Willa Cather Professor & Chair of Communication Studies, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Curators' Professor Emerita of Human Development and Family Studies, University of Missouri
Associate Professor of History at the University of Delaware
Psychologist & Marriage and Family Therapist
PhD Professor and Co-Chair of the College of Environmental Science, University of Missouri
Assistant Professor of Gender Studies and Assistant Research Scientist at The Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction, Indiana University
Director of Clinical Training, Marriage and Family Therapy
Sociologist & Co-Director of the Gender, Sexuality & Women's Studies Program, University of Pennsylvania
Association of Family and Conciliation Courts & ISPCAN
Assistant Professor, Kansas State University
Professor of Adolescent Psychology, Wake Forest University
Assistant Professor, Illinois State University
Professor of Sociology with the Maryland Population Research Center and Director of the Maryland Time Use Lab
Professor, Department of Sociology & Population Studies Center, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Boston University Medical School; Center for Multicultural Training in Psychology, Boston Medical Center; American Family Therapy Academy; Boston Center for Culturally Affirming Practices
Professor of Family & Consumer Studies and Adjunct Professor of Sociology, University of Utah
