80 Percent of Women Don’t Initiate Divorces — It’s A Lot More Complex Than That

The devil is in the detail, and this detail tells a very important story

Elicia Jane
The Knowledge of Freedom
8 min readOct 13, 2022

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A popular statistic that gets thrown around is that 80 percent of divorces are initiated by the woman. The figure appears to have come from Michael Rosenfeld’s study — Who wants the Breakup? Gender and Breakup

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Elicia Jane
The Knowledge of Freedom

Former sex worker, former sex clinic worker. Psychology degree, currently work as a therapist. I write about sex, relationships, humans and human rights.