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In the United States today, one in three marriages may be expected to end in divorce; and the rate of failure may be increasing, if California statistics can be taken as a divorce bellwether. There, in 1970, as Carl Rogers points out, “66 couples [were] dissolving their marriages for every 100 couples marrying.”1 Commenting on these statistics, Rogers says, “To me it seems clear that conventional long-term marriage, as we have known it in this country, is either on its way out or will be greatly modified” (1972, p. 50).
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See also: Murstein, B. I., and Glaudin, V. 1966. The relationship of marital adjustment to personality: A factor analysis of the interpersonal check list. Journal of Marriage and the Family, 28:37–43.
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DeMartino, M.F. (1974). Psychological Dominance and Happiness in Marriage. In: Sex and the Intelligent Women. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-39430-4_22
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