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ERIC Number: EJ215730
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1980-Jan
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A Critique of Divorce Statistics and Their Interpretation.
Crosby, John F.
Family Relations, v29 n1 p51-57 Jan 1980
Increasingly, appeals to the divorce statistic are employed to substantiate claims that the family is in a state of breakdown and marriage is passe. This article contains a consideration of reasons why the divorce statistics are invalid and/or unreliable as indicators of the present state of marriage and family. (Author)
Descriptors: Divorce, Family (Sociological Unit), Family Life, Marital Instability, Reliability, Statistical Analysis, Validity
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Information Analyses
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Language: English
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