Not all revolutions are liberating

I believe Leonore J. Weitzman's book The Divorce Revolution offers a helpful look at the effects of no-fault divorce laws. She began her study assuming no-fault divorce was a breakthrough for women, but she concluded that it had devastating effects. Perhaps her most explosive finding was that men's standard of living went up 42% in the year following divorce, while women's standard declined 73%, even counting alimony and child support payments. (Tim Keller, Ministries of Mercy, p. 21)