DIVORCES INVOLVING CHIDREN
Over the last twenty years, the proportion of divorces involving children under 18 years has been decreasing, although this decline has slowed in recent years. The proportion of divorces involving children was 48.8% in 2008.
The number of children affected by divorce has also decreased from 44,371 in 2007 to 43,184 in 2008, and is similar to the number of children affected by divorce recorded twenty years ago (43,317 in 1989).
Proportion of divorces involving children, Australia, 1989-2008(a)
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