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Last update: July 31, 2007 - 11:32 AM

• A steady increase in divorces among people 50 and older.

• Two-thirds of midlife divorces are now initiated by women.

• An increased demand for financial advisers for divorcing women, as well as divorce and job coaches.

• Cheating is more equally divided between the genders.

• Men stay more often for the kids than women do, 58 percent to 37 percent.

• "Divorced while married" is a new term for married couples who live with separate friends, bedrooms and lives under the same roof, often for years.

• The new walking wounded: adult children of divorced parents.

Source: AARP, Andrew Cherlin, author Deirdre Bair, Kent Peterson, CDFA.

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