The Long View
Empty Nest Syndrome: What Actually Happens to a Marriage When the Children Leave
The panel data says the lasting dip arrives with the first child leaving, not the last, and that marital satisfaction tends to rise at the empty nest rather than fall. If your house went quiet and so did the marriage, the departure is probably not the thing that happened.
Divorce Advice for Men: Which Standard Instructions Survive Contact With the Written Rules
Most divorce advice for men is passed along without anybody checking it against the statute, the regulation or the trial it claims to rest on. Four of the most repeated instructions are checked here against the actual text: one is out of date, one is a state rule mistaken for a national one, one is contradicted by the strongest evidence available, and one describes a document doing something the statute says it cannot do alone.
Divorce for Men Only: What Those Services Are, and What the Numbers Can and Cannot Tell You
Divorce for men only is a market category rather than a legal one, and the statistic the whole category runs on comes from a federal dataset that states in its own text that it does not measure legal custody. Here is what those services can legitimately do, what the statutes actually say about gender, and why the national divorce count leaves out California.
Divorce Support Groups for Men: Which Kind Does What
There are four different things called a divorce support group for men, and they do four different jobs. Here is what the evidence supports for each one, how to read a room in a single session, and what none of them can do for you.
Divorce for Men After Forty: What the Decision Actually Involves
Divorce after a long marriage is not the same decision a thirty year old makes. Here is what the data says about men who leave at this stage, what the first year does to them, and the question that has to be answered before any of it.