Here's some food for thought for the increasing number of husbands who feel that the law on divorce is biased against them. The Institute for Social and Economic Research at the University of Essex has published a study 'Marital splits and income changes over the longer term', which suggests "that marital splits continue to be associated with short-term declines in income for separating wives and children relative to separating husbands", although the size of the decline has reduced since the 1990s, due to the increased rates of employment for mothers. The study also suggests that "incomes for separating wives do recover but not to their previous levels: five years after a split, incomes remain about 10% below their pre-split levels on average", although "women who do not have a job in any of the five years after a marital split, or who do not find a new partner, do much worse than this".