In this paper a model to predict the cumulative divorce trajectory of marriage cohorts has been developed on the assumption that the distribution of the lengths of exposure to marriage of a marriage cohort is lognormal. It is found that on the basis of recently published data the model provides a good fit to cohort divorce trajectories and compares favorably with previously published models on the same subject.
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