1 “Led by Baby Boomers, divorce rates climb for America’s 50+ population,” Pew Research Center, 2017
2 “Who Wants the Breakup? Gender and Breakup in Heterosexual Couples,” Michael J. Rosenfeld, Department of Sociology, Stanford University, 2017
3 United States Government Accountability Office, “The Nation’s Retirement System,” 2017
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