for the First time since years again a little more German citizens to get a divorce. In the past year, approximately 149 000 marriages ended by a court decision, nearly 1,000 more than in 2018, as the Federal Statistical office reported on Wednesday in Wiesbaden. The slight increase of 0.6 percent was the first increase since the year 2012.

The statistics makes no statement about the possible effects of the Corona-restrictions this year. According to experts, a rule is imminent wave of separations. Exciting, but just no time?

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Often the family breaks apart

on average, last year, divorced men and women were married 14 years and 10 months. Around 17 percent had previously brought the silver wedding behind, as the Federal Agency reported. 25 years ago, marriages had been divorced after an average of 12 years and 5 months. One reason is reported to be at the time, a lower proportion of divorced long-zeitehen: in 1994, only about every tenth Couple in the year of the silver wedding or after a divorce.

Often the relationship does not end, but the whole family chips in half: approximately half of the divorce cases last year were still not adult children in the household, a total of approximately 122,000 minors were reported to be affected.

"it is the primordial soup that a relationship will remain alive"

for the First time, divorces were recognised same-sex married couples, 100 were registered. You included, were men last year, at the time of divorce, an average of 46.6 years old, women of 44.4.

The increase from 2018 to 2019, the Berlin psychotherapist Wolfgang Krüger considers to be too low to be meaningful. "Generally speaking, we have been experiencing for years that marriages last on average longer than in the past. The relations have become better, because the partners are self-employed and women are more financially independent," says the author of the book on the subject of love and partnership. What is crucial is the Balance between proximity and distance is: "it is the primordial soup that a relationship remains alive. If everyone also has a life of its own, then the partnership will be exciting." More about the Coronavirus, The great Oxford-analysis -, These ten countries have taxes on a second Corona-shaft to the best Hygiene does not help: a Previously unknown factor makes the meat factories to the Corona-Hotspot million Dead feared: worst Corona epidemic threatens the world yet to come! Professor of medicine: At the second Corona-wave, we don't need a Lockdown, office, Restaurant, school where Corona-float aerosols, does not help the R distance value, Nowcast, new infections: The Super-value for Corona measurement, there are not

divorce lawyers are the dates to keep free already

But then came the Coronavirus. Closed kindergartens, schools, playgrounds, and in addition, the home office held on to families and couples for a week in cramped conditions. In the aftermath, the other experts feared, be very worrying, says psychologist: especially after the end of the holiday season in a few weeks, a strong increase of separations will expected. Divorce lawyers were already free dates.

The Berlin-based family-rights activist Alicia von Rosenberg had reported the German press Agency, previously of the "scary many requests" to divorce. Also, Maren Otto, Couple therapist in Hanover, spoke of a larger crowd, the requests rose by about a quarter, of all things, in time, as therapists because of the pandemic were not allowed to work and by phone advised.

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"so you come from a forced close in the next"

"During the high phase of the Corona were due to the forced proximity of a radical strain on relationships. Many will have thought: I give the relationship in the holiday a Chance. But one comes from a forced close in the next," says Kruger. The feared separation of the wave could be up to five Times higher than it is after the vacation time is normally not the case. You go out of usually to 100,000 separations after the summer holidays, this would mean that a half a Million relationships threatens the.

The statistics office published on Wednesday, absolute Numbers, not in Relation to the 416.300 marriages of the year. How much percent of marriages fail, therefore, can be from you not reading. Figures for the year 2018 show that in almost every third case, the divorce was filed.

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Date Of Update: 15 July 2020, 23:26