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Lifetime of assets on the line when over-50 couples split Get expert help to divide property and retirement savings so that tax and future income can be projected

The start-up trying to make divorce less painful http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-22802825?goback=%2Egde_2117176_member_247682654

Digital divorce for the 21st Century Divorce is one of the most stressful events human beings experience. The BBC's Fiona Graham talks to the founder of the US start-up trying to take some of the pain out of the process

DIRTY WORK: A SIX-PART SERIES in The Globe and Mail

PART 1 Dirty work: How household chores push families to the brink

PART 2 How picky women "gatekeepers" wind up doing most of the housework

PART 3 In some homes, men do more housework than women

PART 4 The business case for rebalancing work and life

PART 5 The great, untapped household labour pool: your kids

PART 6 Ending the chore war: 5 ideas for peace on the domestic front

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/relationships/dirty-work-how-household-chores-push-families-to-the-brink/article12300024/

Dirty work: How household chores push families to the brink Progress on housework equity has stalled, hurting many women’s careers – and marriages

Read this interesting article that questions the reliability of “averages” and how the numbers can get skewed-especially when we are talking about personal relationships, such as marriage, kids and divorce. Here is an excerpt:

“Most children of divorced parents turn out to be as well adjusted as children of married parents, but the much smaller number who lead very troubled lives can lower the average outcome for the whole group, producing exaggerated estimates of the impact of divorce.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/26/opinion/sunday/when-numbers-mislead.html?ref=opinion&_r=1&

When Numbers Mislead Data can lead to mistaken notions — that divorce, for instance, must hurt children.

http://mutualsolutions.ca/2013/05/01/nytimes-article/

NYTimes Article | Mutual Solutions “As jobs have been automated or moved overseas, it has become more difficult for high-school-educated young men to find the kind of steady, well-paying industrial work that sustained their fathers’ families. Faced with this situation, many of them are willing to live in short-term cohabiting relatio...