Blame it on ECONOMY for rising Divorces!

Early speculation surrounding the recession's dip in divorces had attributed the phenomenon to hard times bringing families closer together. But the study's author Philip N. Cohen -a sociologist at the University of Maryland --  now believes couples were simply putting off their divorces until better financial opportunities arose.

'This is exactly what happened in the 1930s,' John Hopkins University sociologist Andrew Cherlin told the Los Angeles Times of how divorce rates dropped during the Great Depression, and later rose when families' financial statuses improved.

'The divorce rates dropped during the Great Depression not because people were happier with their marriages, but because they couldn't afford to get divorced,' he continued.