gray divorce

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From gray +‎ divorce.

Noun

gray divorce (countable and uncountable, plural gray divorces)

  1. A divorce occurring between senior or elderly individuals, usually after a long-term marriage.
    • 2018, Jocelyn Elise Crowley, “Praise For Gray Divorce”, in Gray Divorce: What We Lose and Gain from Mid-Life Splits‎[1], University of California Press, →ISBN:
      Gray divorce: blame the doctors for allowing people to live longer; blame the chemists with their little blue pills that allow for sexual rebirth; blame capitalism, which after all is a raging success that allows the privileged few to have serial marriages and divorces and pay for discarded wives, the children they put in boarding schools, etc.
    • 2025 September 12, Molly Gorman, “'Was it all smoke and mirrors?': How adult children are affected by grey divorce”, in BBC‎[2]:
      The rise in grey divorce isn't exclusive to the US – it's also happening in ageing populations around the world.
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