Importance The article presents some results of the research into the phenomenon of divorce and individual strategies people assume after their divorce in contemporary Russia. The research brings scientific novelty since post-divorce practices and the remarriage market are poorly elaborated from conceptual and empirical perspectives. Objectives The research examines the existing trends in the remarriage market and identifies typical behavior after divorce in Russia today. Methods We reviewed theoretical concepts of the divorce phenomenon and performed a massive survey among official divorcees of Volgograd and several districts of the Volgograd oblast. We pursued revealing principal socio-demographic characteristics of those who happened to enter the remarriage market, and certain indices of behavior after marriage. Primary data were processed with computer software, methods of descriptive statistics, cross-charts, classical correlation and factor analysis. Results Subjective and biased aspects were found to have a dramatic effect on the marriage stability, while the impact of objective factors was not almost registered. Here we should mention such objective factors as children, their number, educational level, confession, etc. We also detected pretty clear remarriage attitudes and intentions. Conclusions and Relevance The considerable part of divorcees does not welcome serial monogamy. Therefore, on the one hand, the Russian people have almost evolved from objective reasons for divorce towards subjective ones. On the other hand, here we can still see the conventional system of marital and family values and patterns, thus contradicting to the idea of the perishing conventional marriage as a social construct.
Keywords: marriage market, marriage rate, divorce rate, behavior after divorce
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