The divorce rate in Britain has
levelled off—to roughly one marriage in three—and shows no sign of reaching the
much higher American rate, according to the demographers(人口统计学者) assembled in
Bath last week for a conference on the family. There has been no increase in the
rate in the last three years and although many expected it to rise a few more
percentage points in the next decade, none believed it would reach the 50
percent that exists in America. One reason for the stabilizations of divorce is the reduction in the risk factors—fewer teenagers marrying, fewer early births in marriage, fewer pre-marital(婚前的)conceptions. Another reason which was aired at the annual conference of the British Society for Population Studies, was the increase in cohabitation. Some speakers argued that the increase in cohabitation has meant that ma A. increased B. decreased C. fluctuated D. became stable [填空题]Taiwan’s divorce rate has continued to rise over the past 10 years as more and more married couple have given up on their {{U}} (36) {{/U}} to a life-long relationship.
In its most recent demographic (人口学) and social survey, the island’s {{U}} (37) {{/U}} found that the divorce rate in Taiwan has increased by an average of 6.4 per cent {{U}} (38) {{/U}} over the last decade.
A {{U}} (39) {{/U}} of 4,379 couples in Taiwan ended their marriages in 1998. This increase of 4,830 over the previous years {{U}} (40) {{/U}} Taiwan’s annual divorce rate 0.2 per cent, making it the {{U}} (41) {{/U}} among all the countries and {{U}} (42) {{/U}} of Asia, officials said.
Married couples between 30 and 34 were more likely to divorce than those in any other age group of married people. Among those {{U}} (43) {{/U}}, 2.8 per cent of the men and 23.4 per cent of the women who divorced a husband/wife last year were from this age group.
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