[growingkittens]

No fault divorce did not exist before the rise in cruelty claims. What caused the sudden rise in cruelty claims? None of these sources contain any sort of analysis, they're just a narrative with number aids.

The crime and violence wave of the century was beginning, which would end with a whisper in the 1990s as crime and violence dropped everywhere in the US regardless of enacted laws.

Women's rights were taking hold. Men's behavior didn't necessarily change - the social ability to escape that behavior did.

I don't think that social sciences are as technically advanced as you want them to be. They are in their infancy.