Women ‘worse off’ when couples part

Women are more likely to suffer financially than men when marriages or cohabitational relationships fail, a new study says.‚Ä®
Economically, when either kind of co-residential relationship dissolves, “women are definitely worse off,” said Sarah Avellar of Mathematica Policy Research Inc., co-author of a new study with Pamela J. Smock of the University of Michigan.‚Ä®
For instance, after divorce, married men averaged nearly $29,000 a year while ex-boyfriends averaged $22,000, according to the study, which appears in the May issue of the Journal of Marriage and Family.

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