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•There are numerous agencies, social support services and infrastructure geared to supporting women transitioning thru divorce. There is a Divorce University for women yet no similar organization exists for men.

•Divorced Men are 10 times more likely than women to commit suicide. Men who don't commit suicide are often depressed, but they cover up the depression by quickly remarrying to fill the void. These men also tend to overwork, drink or gamble too much.

•Professional athletes have a 80 percent divorce rate. No one provides resources on how these athletes can keep their families. No one helps them to divorce without damage.

•Men are being abandoned with children or gaining custody of children, and lack the support systems that women have.

• In Southern California the divorce rate is believed to be somewhere in the neighborhood of 60-75%.

•65% of divorces are initiated by women. December 2003 AARP survey, 66 percent of women reported that they asked for the divorce, compared with 41 percent of men. Men more often than women were caught off-guard by their divorce (the news blind-sided 26 percent of men, compared with 14 percent of women).

•75% of all divorced people re-marry, half of them within three years. Fifty percent of first marriages, 67 percent of second and 74 percent of third marriages end in divorce.


We love the gossip and tawdriness of the 76 million dollar divorce, the cheating and money fights, but at the end of the day behind these statistics there are millions of families and men who need support.