Effect's of Children on Women's Remarriage Prospects

An article that I found, which has the same title as this post, was very helpful in informing about the effects of children on women looking to remarry. This is another very good article that helps to inform about some of the statistics that are affecting women in this situation, usually looking to remarry after a divorce where children were involved. The article begins by telling how divorced women are, in most cases, emotionally and economically strained after the divorce process, especially those with young children. At the same time these women in some cases are the ones who have the least experience in the labor force, which is an evident problem. Although women in these situations have to work to make up the difference in salary after a divorce, these younger children require the most amount of attention and intensive care, which brings about another major problem. In most cases, the more children the woman has to take care of is directly related to the amount of stress that she has. All of these factors and more may make a woman looking for a new partner "less attractive" as well as taking the majority of their time away from them as they look out for their children. We discussed some of these things in class on Friday and I thought that it was interesting to see specific statistics on some of the issues that single mothers have to deal with when looking for remarriages in today's society.

Another interesting thing that I found in this article is the age of the majority of divorces including a young child. Most of the divorces involving young children include mothers who are under 25 years old, which was somewhat surprising to me. Then for these women, 80% of them marry spouses who are between 5 years younger than them to 10 years older than them. Although this is a very wide range of people, it does restrict the people who are interested, especially once people who do not want to care for a woman and her children are eliminated from contention. I thought that this was very interesting and wanted to share a little about it.