New research show the correct figures to be more like 27 and 10 percent. The author now admits she messed up. Only 25 to 30 percent of all divorces are initiated by the husband. Not husbands who dump their wives.
Asian men are less likely than Asian women to have divorced.
Just 3.8 percent of Asians are currently divorced, compared with 8.9 percent of all Americans 15 and over. They say increasing economic indepenence and earnings is probably related to today's high divorce rates. Marriage is seen as worth saving, divorce may simply defer problems to another partner.