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Can You Insure Against Divorce?

Posted by Daniel Clement on December 15, 2009
The success or lack of success of a marriage is apparently now statistically predictable. Since is it predictable, it may soon be possible to insure a marriage against divorce. MyNewMarkets.com reports that J. Christopher Westland, a professor of information and decision sciences, at the University of Illinois at Chicago, through an analysis of census data, has identified several factors that influence the likelihood of divorce. According to Professor Westland, the factors that put a marriage at risk include: “Age (younger is riskier); race (Asian is the lowest risk); whether a woman had forced premarital sex (a woman who has been... More
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