This paper argues that a structural determinant of the incidence of divorce is the pattern of the spouses' affiliations. Research into the rate of divorce in sixty-two primitive societies indicates that, when the spouses maintain predominantly common affiliations, the incidence of divorce is low;that, when the spouses maintain predominantly separate affiliations, the incidence of divorce is high.
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Charles Ackerman (1963) studied this question.