Original scientific paper
Divorces in Croatia from 1950 to 1985
Ruža Petrović
; Faculty of Philosophy, Belgrade
Abstract
This work is based on statistic records data of divorces — of legally contracted relationships in order to observe the stability of marriage. Divorces are, namely, an objective and measurable indicator of marriage.
Within Croatia’s population the number of divorces continuously increased and a perceptible growth of the divorce coefficient (the number of divorces on a 1000 married people) indicates that the present condition as well as lifestyle is spreading. In this group there are more women, while the average age has emphatically increased over the years due to the growth of the divorce coefficient in all, especially older generations.
In the period 1950 to 1985 in Croatia there were 182823 divorces, and their number continued to grow. However, this growth is the consequence of an increase of married persons because since 1970 the stability grew, 5.13 divorced out of a 1000 existent marriages dropped to 4.59. The correlation of age and number of divorces is very clear, the most frequently divorced being younger persons and those married for a short period of time, one to two years. About half the divorced leave children behind, their average number being approximately 1.5 and they are rarely assigned to the father.
In the same period of time 181237 persons remarried, almost every other divorced person. However, the number of remarriages out of a thousand people divorced has dropped considerably in time. Partly this is due to the increase of divorces within the older population of people who less frequently remarry, and partly to an overall decrease in the number of marriages among the young generation whose social position and unemployment are reported as considerable obstructions to marriage with simultaneous attitude changes as well as changes of relations toward marriage.
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155252
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Publication date:
30.9.1990.
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