http://www.cnbc.com/id/44078431?slide=3
QuoteFlorida (4.3 Divorces Per 1,000 People)
Florida is tied with Maine for the number of divorces per 1,000 people. In fact, The Daily Beast ran a feature in October 2010 called “ America's 50 Divorce Capitals ,†in which the state was represented by no less than 12 (Florida cities) of the list’s 50 (top divorce city) entries.
The cities included Orlando, Miami, and Tampa, among others. The highest-ranking city was Panama City, which saw 994 divorce filings in 2008 and more than 1,000 the following year . In 2010, it was the site of the high-profile divorce filing of Elin Woods against her husband, Tiger Woods.
Of course there is the high impact of recession contributing to the high divorce rate in most cases, but also this:
Having a baby adds incredible stress on a marriage, Estroff Marano says. "People think having a baby is a kind of a cement and it's generally nothing of the kind. Babies make demands that take time away from each other," she says. "Babies take women out of the workforce, away from peers, it isolates them, and completely takes you away from what you've been doing."
Up to 90 percent of couples say they are stressed, conflicted and less satisfied in their marriage after the birth of a baby, according to the Gottman Institute and other studies. Some of those couples split--
about 12.5 percent of couples divorce or separate by the time their first-born is 18 months old, according to Carolyn Pape Cowan and husband Philip Cowan, co-directors of the Schoolchildren and their Families Project and authors of "When Partners Become Parents."
Then the new mom can have an entirely new set of problems--society isn't too keen on single moms, and having a new baby limits a mom's mobility and as well as her desirability in the dating arena, Estroff Marano says.
Of course, the baby doesn't fare any better. "If children come into the world with the burden of saving a marriage, as many do, they sense it," says single dad Joe Sindoni, author of "50 Reasons to Not Have Kids: And What to Do If You Have Them Anyway." Then the child feels responsible if his parents split, or tries to fix things before they do. "It's a big load to put on such little shoulders," he says.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/vicki-larson/how-not-to-save-a-marriag_b_920464.html