COVID’s impact on divorce minimal so far

How many articles and segments on television have you seen about the COVID-19 quarantine causing a huge uptick in family discord and divorces? I thought I would test the claim.Now that we have several months of data, the predicted uptick in divorces is not occurring, at least in Cook County. Between March 1 and June 30, the number of divorce filings and paternity cases total are down almost 40% from the same …

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