Divorce negatively influences not only physical health of the dissolved and psychological well-being of their children, but also state of the entire planet, increasing amount of the resources spent for each person.

Such research is published this week on pages of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Researchers lead by Tssang Lu from University of Michigan have shown that because of divorces the mankind spends much more water and electricity, than it needs.

Denial of living together of a family from several generations and late marriages in a modern society also negatively influences an environment.

An amount of divorces now increases not only in advanced, but also in less developed countries. Before Lu already noticed, that the amount of households in the world increases faster, than its population.

Divorce appeared one of the most important among the factors providing fast growth - and as the consequence, strengthened consumption of the natural resources, for example, for construction, warming and illumination of houses.

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