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New study: the majority (69%) of divorces are initiated by women

This new report from Live Science gives us some numbers about who initiates divorces most frequently. It says: Women are more likely than men to initiate divorce in the United States, but they are no more likely than men to initiate breakups in a dating relationship, a new study finds. “The breakups of nonmarital heterosexual relationships in the U.S. are quite gender-neutral and fairly egalitarian,” study author Michael Rosenfeld, an associate professor of sociology at Stanford Univ