Bonus: The Global Story - Divorce

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Society & Culture, Documentary, Personal Journals

4.3 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 31 July 2024

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

In a bonus episode of The Global Story podcast - Divorce: The art of breaking up.

The Global Story brings you one big story every weekday, making sense of the news with our experts around the world. Insights you can trust, from the BBC World Service. For more, go to bbcworldservice.com/globalstory or search for The Global Story wherever you get your BBC podcasts.

Divorce rates have been in decline across the West for decades. Experts put this down to a variety of factors, from fewer marriages to a widening dating pool, but cultural differences mean it is difficult to draw broad conclusions on the trends around splitting up. So how can we judge how attitudes to divorce have changed? On today's episode Lucy Hockings is joined by divorce mediator and former BBC presenter Joanna Gosling, as well as Marina Adshade, a professor at the University of British Columbia who focusses on the economics of sex and relationships. They interrogate some of the stats on divorce, and discuss how the process of dissolving marriage is portrayed in popular culture.

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Producer: Alice Aylett Roberts, Laurie Kalus and Emilia Jansson Sound engineer: Hannah Montgomery and Phil Bull Assistant editor: Sergi Forcada Freixas Editor is Richard Fenton-Smith

Transcript

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0:00.0	From the BBC World Service, welcome to the documentary, the home of original storytelling.
0:06.0	I'm Lucy Hawkins here with a bonus episode of The Global Story Podcast.
0:11.0	Each week day we look at one big story in detail. In this episode we're talking
0:16.9	about divorce. Why is it becoming less common in some countries and how is the end of a marriage viewed by different
0:24.4	cultures around the world. They say that breaking up is hard to do and that seems
0:31.4	to be particularly true in many Western countries
0:33.8	where divorce rates have been steadily falling for the last few decades.
0:38.0	On today's episode we look at some of the main reasons people decide to get divorced or never get married at all.
0:45.0	We consider the effects on families, finances and emotional well-being at a time that some
0:51.6	people say is the most stressful in life.
0:56.1	With me today is Joanna Gosling, a long-time BBC journalist and presenter who now works as a
1:01.5	mediator for couples considering divorce
1:04.0	and Marina Adshade who is a professor at the Vancouver School of Economics
1:08.0	and regularly contributes to BBC programs.
1:11.0	Hi Marina, good to see you. It's great to be here. programs. Hi Marina, good to see you.
1:13.0	It's great to be here.
1:14.0	Joanna, lovely to have you with us in the studio.
1:16.0	Thank you very much for having me.
1:18.0	Joanna, you sadly left us here at the BBC to pursue a career in mediation.
1:22.0	But why did you choose to work and what must at times be really
1:26.3	acrimonious, really tense, that environment, working with couples who are divorcing?
1:30.5	Yeah, there was sort of lots of things really going on for me both in my
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