Download or read book Does Divorce Make People Happy? written by Linda J. Waite and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 43 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Does divorce typically make adults happier than staying in an unhappy marriage? Many Americans assume so. This study represents, to the best of our knowledge, the first serious effort to investigate this assumption empirically: Two out of three unhappily married adults who avoided divorce reported being happily married five years later.