ABSTRACT
Not all committed intimate partner relationships last. The chapter examines factors associated with the disintegration of dating relationships and marriages. Sections focus on marital separation, in addition to aspects involving marital dissolution, including why couples choose to divorce, the influence of divorce on children and adults, post-divorce adjustment, and the positive effects of divorce. Taken from diversity and global perspectives, this chapter also discusses divorce pressures unique to same-sex headed families and associations between divorce and homicide in the Caribbean.
