Are people in certain occupations more likely to need California divorce lawyers? A new study certainly seems to indicate so. The study which has been published in the Journal of Police and Criminal Psychology compared divorce rates with at least 500 different occupations. It has some interesting insights into the way our choice of career can impact an individual's personal life.
According to the study, dancers and choreographers have some of the highest divorce rates, while engineers seem to be right at the other end of the spectrum, with some of the lowest divorce rates. Dancers and choreographers are followed by bartenders with a 38.4% divorce rate, and massage therapists with a 38.2% divorce rate. They kept company with telephone operators, casino workers and nurses. Among the occupations with the lowest divorce rates, were optometrists with a 4% divorce rate, clergymen with a 5.6% divorce rate, and podiatrists with a 6.8% divorce rate.
This study doesn't really provide a complete picture of the divorce scene in America. For instance, the study only looked at those persons who were married at the time of the census. It didn't consider whether the person had been divorced previously, and had remarried. It also doesn't draw any conclusions about whether the stresses of certain jobs cause marriages to break down, or whether people who have personalities that may place them at risk for bad relationships are drawn to certain professions. It's important to understand that there might not even be any link here.
However, it is a fact that stress can impact your personal life and marriage. A clergyman has a job that could be much less stressful than, say, a nurse’s job. This study presents some tantalizing glimpses of how occupations can affect individual personal life, but has few answers.
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