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The astonishing rise of gray divorce

“Every year you’re out of the workforce, that gets entered into the complex Social Security formula for benefits as a zero — that you basically did nothing that year, even though you were raising your children,” Crowley says. “As you might imagine, when women emerge from a gray divorce, they are hammered in comparison to men.”

The Faces Behind Gray Divorce

According to a study conducted by Jocelyn Crowley of Rutgers University, participants identified positive aspects of their lives post-gray divorce, including higher levels of overall happiness, liberation from their ex-spouses, and enhanced independence and freedom.

Are Men Left Behind? The Gender Gap at All NJ Colleges, Universities

New Jersey colleges and universities have seen an average of 40,000 more women than men as undergraduates over just a five-year span ending last fall. Years of enrollment data show that NJ has been part of a nationwide, decades-long trend of notably more female...

Dr. Crowley discusses the reasons behind divorce after the age of 50

With more opportunities to divorce more often than other groups with lower initial divorce rates, gray divorce has been growing as boomers age. Remarriages have a 2.5 times greater risk of divorce than first marriages, Brown says. ​ Disagreements over...

Get Financial Advice Before Your Divorce

For women who have left the workforce to care for children or scaled back to a part-time job, the consequences of not paying into Social Security may leave them in a financial bind, says Jocelyn Elise Crowley, a professor of public policy at Rutgers University in New...

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