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Translation by Carolina Friszman.

According to statistics, after breaking up he will find a nine-year-younger woman than him and she will stay single, with the children. The average marriage today lasts 10 years.

Recent sociological research suggests that after the divorce, bound to happen in seven out of ten contemporary marriages - men run after an evidently younger woman and women stay by themselves, at least for a considerable bunch of years.

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The geometrical growing of the divorce rate, that consecrates successive monogamy the most widely spread lifestyle, has accented men's tendency to look for younger and younger woman, and women's disposition to raise their children by themselves and stay single. So it states a study by the Institute of Psychology of the University of Sao Paulo, whose results are identical to others' from different countries in America and Europe.

The study's figures prove that men prefer women who are younger than them and that this preference only deepens with time. If first marriages the gap is short - only 3 years, (statistics show that the average groom is 27, while the average bride is 24), in the second he will look for a partner who is nine years younger than him. And from then on, even in third and forth marriages, statistics say he will join someone younger: for a groom in his sixties, the average bride is fourteen years younger.

Research proves that separated men usually marry again in the short term. Regarding his ex, though, the study reveals a different behavior confirming a suspicion emerged from everyday observation: they suffer a disadvantage when looking for a new partner after turning 30. After divorce, 56% of the times women become family heads, with the double responsibility to raise the children and run the house. This condition is detrimental to their looking for a new spouse. Studies state that it takes between 4 and 5 years for divorced women to form a couple again. Children, as everybody knows, deter candidates.

On the other hand, divorced men come back to their parents' home 34% of the times and only in 32% of the cases move by themselves. In other words, they break free from their commitments and concentrate on new tasks, such as courting their new, young and almost always single girlfriend.(...)