1. Introduction • 2. Long-term developments •3. Age of divorced spouses • 4. Duration of marriage at the time of divorce • 5. The greatest evil of divorce: minor children left after the dissolution of marriage • 6. The European divorce landscape • Appendix • Literature

introduction

After the situation with marriages presented in the previous two articles (published on 30/12/2023 and 05/01/2024), a perspective on divorce is motivated and appropriate to better understand the formation and dissolution of marriage. Marriage is a voluntary union between a man and a woman, concluded in accordance with the terms of the law. Its dissolution by the final decision of the court, registry office or notary is dissolution of marriage. In accordance with Law No. 202/2010, the formalities of divorce were simplified by introducing the presence of the consent of the spouses. Aspects considered in the article relate to the age of the spouses at the time of the divorce, the duration of the marriage, minor children remaining after the divorce, marital and divorce relations, Romania’s place in the European Union.

In the second half of the 1960s, not only the birth rate, but also divorces, which were also subjected to brutal and forced legislative changes, increased tremendously in our country. Marriage could not remain inert to these dramatic changes, and through interdependence it too entered a downward trend, as a recovery in maternal and infant mortality naturally followed a violent explosion in birth rates. They are examples of the difficulty of determining the phenomena of natural population movement and a warning for rulers. The main source of data is the TEMPO statistical database of the National Institute of Statistics [1].

Long-term developments

Looking in Figure 1 only at the evolution of the divorce rate of the whole population during the years 1950-2022, a very long period, we distinguish significant features in four sub-periods: a remarkable increase in the rate until 1967, a real drop in the rate in 1967, and low values ​​until 1975, a long the 1975-2011 sub-period of relative stability of the divorce rate at the level of 1.5 to 2 divorces per 1,000 inhabitants and the beginning of the decline after 2011.

Looking at the developments in the two environments, the picture acquires another dimension, highlighting the false trail imposed by the estimate of the average size in some circumstances: the mentioned curve of the divorce rate of the whole population is nothing but the result of a sharply opposite development in the two environments, of great amplitude and symmetry in development before 1967 and after 1974. These categorical differences automatically raise questions about the determinants and mechanisms of such different development in the two populations _ Read the full article and comment on Contributors.ro