{"id":5096,"date":"2021-04-06T09:37:42","date_gmt":"2021-04-06T13:37:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rcourihay.com\/?p=5096"},"modified":"2026-03-13T16:57:48","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T16:57:48","slug":"ny-times-divorce-rates-are-now-dropping-here-are-some-reasons-why-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rcourihay.com\/staging\/blog\/ny-times-divorce-rates-are-now-dropping-here-are-some-reasons-why-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The New York Times | Harriet N. Cohen, Ken Jewell | Divorce Rates Are Now Dropping"},"content":{"rendered":"<h6 id=\"link-7852aacd\" data-test-id=\"headline\">The Original Press Appeared in New York Times. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/03\/24\/style\/divorce-rates-dropping.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here<\/a> to view.<\/h6>\n<style>\/*! elementor - v3.16.0 - 14-09-2023 *\/\n.elementor-widget-image{text-align:center}.elementor-widget-image a{display:inline-block}.elementor-widget-image a img[src$=\".svg\"]{width:48px}.elementor-widget-image img{vertical-align:middle;display:inline-block}<\/style>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/rcourihay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/author-vincent-m-mallozzi-thumbLarge.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<header>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">By\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/by\/vincent-m-mallozzi\">Vincent M. Mallozzi<\/a><\/p>\n<p><time datetime=\"2021-03-24T09:58:02-04:00\">March 24, 2021<\/time><\/header>\n<section>\n<p>Divorces from coast to coast have slowed considerably in the last 12 months, according to lawyers, relationship coaches in New York, and records kept by the Superior Court of California.<\/p>\n<p>Though New York State keeps its divorce records sealed, the Superior Court of California<a title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lacourt.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u00a0tracks family law data\u00a0<\/a>in each of its 58 counties, including Los Angeles, where divorce filings are down 17.3 percent from the previous rolling year, as 12,750 people filed for divorce from March 2, 2020, to Feb. 26, 2021, compared to 15,222 who filed in Los Angeles the previous year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe had a surge in divorces in the early months of the pandemic, but now we seem to be seeing a plummeting,\u201d said Harriet N. Cohen, a divorce lawyer who founded Cohen Stine Kapoor in Manhattan.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIronically, the same vaccines that will hopefully return life to normal, will also prove to be the catalyst for a new rise in divorces,\u201d Ms. Cohen said.\u201d We have no doubt that divorces will surge again, but for now, uncertainty is the order of the day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ms. Cohen rattled off some of the top reasons some couples got divorced during the Pandemic era, or in any other era, such as boredom, financial difficulties, extramarital affairs and physical abuse. She also cited a few reasons couples who \u201cdecided to stick it out at this particular time in our history.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<figure>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"960\" src=\"https:\/\/rcourihay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/oakImage-1616091674611-superJumbo-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rcourihay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/oakImage-1616091674611-superJumbo-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/rcourihay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/oakImage-1616091674611-superJumbo-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/rcourihay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/oakImage-1616091674611-superJumbo-768x1151.jpg 768w, https:\/\/rcourihay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/oakImage-1616091674611-superJumbo-1025x1536.jpg 1025w, https:\/\/rcourihay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/oakImage-1616091674611-superJumbo.jpg 1366w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption>\u201cWe had a surge in divorces in the early months of the pandemic, but now we seem to be seeing a plummeting,\u201d said Harriet N. Cohen, a divorce lawyer who founded Cohen Stine Kapoor in Manhattan.Credit&#8230;Circle Hamilton<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cSo many negative things are currently happening that people are afraid to change the status quo, and are staying married,\u201d she said. \u201cIt\u2019s not that they won\u2019t divorce in the future, it\u2019s just that people do not have their ordinary outlets right now, they don\u2019t leave the house that much, they don\u2019t go to the office to continue affairs if they are having one, and of course, getting divorced is very expensive.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Lee Wilson, a relationship expert and \u201cbreakup coach\u201d in Nashville, Tenn., agreed with Ms. Cohen\u2019s assertion that divorces seemed to be rising rapidly in the early days of the pandemic before slowing down in recent months, a surprising reverse-trend he identified in April 2020 by sending out several thousand surveys to married couples, ages 18 to 64, asking them if the virus had done more harm than good to their relationships.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mr. Wilson was not surprised to learn that 29.9 percent of the 1,277 couples surveyed from ages 18 to 64 and living in the United States, England, Canada, India and the Philippines said that the virus had indeed done more harm to their marriages, and were therefore heading for divorce.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cIn those first seven or eight months, divorces were certainly on the rise,\u201d Mr. Wilson said. \u201cMy theory is that those getting divorced at that time, were couples already in troubled relationships, but due to the fact that they were getting breaks from each other, they were able to endure it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThen the virus emerged, and those same couples were forced to spend more time at home together and interact more often,\u201d he said. \u201cSuddenly, they felt as if there was no escape, and wanted out.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"951\" src=\"https:\/\/rcourihay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/24Divorce02-superJumbo-689x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rcourihay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/24Divorce02-superJumbo-689x1024.jpg 689w, https:\/\/rcourihay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/24Divorce02-superJumbo-202x300.jpg 202w, https:\/\/rcourihay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/24Divorce02-superJumbo-768x1142.jpg 768w, https:\/\/rcourihay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/24Divorce02-superJumbo-1033x1536.jpg 1033w, https:\/\/rcourihay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/24Divorce02-superJumbo.jpg 1377w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption>\u201cMany people in difficult marriages, for a variety of reasons, just worked it out,\u201d said Ken Jewell, a New York divorce lawyer.Credit\u2026Statia Grossman <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ken Jewell, who is also a New York divorce lawyer, had more than a theory to go on in order to identify a rising trend in divorces when the New York divorce courts reopened in June after a nearly three-month closure.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cMy consultations were up 48 percent,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s never been that high.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In February 2021, 10 months after Mr. Wilson sent out his first survey, he sent out another, this one filled with multiple choice questions asking married couples if the coronavirus crisis had a negative or positive impact on their marriages.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A whopping 2,429 surveys were returned, mostly from Mr. Wilson\u2019s subscribers in the United States (48.7 percent) and England (21.4 percent).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This time around, 17 percent of those questioned believed the pandemic had actually strengthened their relationship over a greater period of time.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cMany people in difficult marriages, for a variety of reasons, just worked it out,\u201d Mr. Wilson said. \u201cThey did what they thought was best for their situation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ms. Cohen, who lives in New York, also provided positive reasons as to why many couples may have thought twice about getting divorced.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cSpending family time together, like mom and dad going for a bike ride with the children can be a great thing, or a dad hanging around the house who now gets to have a catch with his son who plays baseball,\u201d she said. \u201cThere are some positives here for sure.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to a <a style=\"text-align: justify;\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aei.org\/articles\/divorce-is-down-during-covid\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">report published\u00a0<\/a>in October 2020 by the Institute for Family Studies, headquartered in Charlottesville, Va., four other states where divorce statistics are available have also seen reductions in year-to-date divorce filings. Florida is down 19 percent, Rhode Island 13 percent, Oregon 12 percent and Missouri. 9 percent).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mr. Jewell offered some free legal advice for anyone, anywhere, who is contemplating divorce at this point in the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cI would say wait until the weather\u2019s warmer, wait until you get vaccinated, and see what can be solved among yourselves, which will save you a lot of money in legal fees,\u201d he said. \u201cTry to avoid going to court, and if there are any remaining issues that can only be dealt with through lawyers, you\u2019ll be able to handle those things on a much smarter, focused and inexpensive level.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In many cases, separation is a necessity when one or both parties locked in a contentious divorce over finances or physical or mental abuse, may not be able to cope financially or psychologically on their own and may show up at shelters. One such place is <a style=\"text-align: justify;\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/theapostleshouse.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the Apostles&#8217; House<\/a>, a homeless shelter in Newark, N.J., for both battered and destitute women.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cFor months now, our phones have been ringing off the wall with calls from regular, everyday working people asking if we have room for them and sometimes their families,\u201d said Victoria Griffith, the director of two of the three Apostles Houses located in Newark. \u201cIt\u2019s gotten to the point where our shelters and others whose rooms are packed are sending families to some of the hotels here, which have also been providing shelter.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cI\u2019ve worked here for eight years,\u201d said Ms. Griffith, drawing a deep breath before adding, \u201cI\u2019ve never seen it this busy, or this crazy, in any other year.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Original Press Appeared in New York Times. 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