What day is called the D-Day? Any guesses??? If your answer is June 6, 1944 and the commencement of the Battle of Normandy, a key turning point in the second world war; think again. You just blew away a million dollars worth of prize money! D-Day is January 7th. It has the unique record of having the maximum number of divorces filed in the United States. The pattern seems to repeat every year.
Well Children's day, Valentine's day, Independence day blah blah...but Divorce-Day????? Imagine getting booted out of your house in the middle of January (its worse as u head north). Imagine getting divorce papers as I prepare to watch the super bowl or the BCS title game (hmm for all u guys interested in pulling my leg...i agree OSU lost again but we will be back next year...same day different place though). It is interesting that the day when most divorce cases are filed happens to be early January. One would expect the Christmas season to be filled with joy, but evidence suggests that this is not the case for several people. getting booted out of one's home in the middle of January can be painful.
Hmm..so much for a new year resolution or HAPPY HOLIDAYS...lol
Thursday, January 17, 2008
D-Day
Posted by Mad Max at 12:19 AM
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Thats interesting. Maybe it is the winter . It is quite depressing..
Or Maybe the wives get vexed of husbands sitting on a couch , watching NFL from september....and reach the peak by January
1) Holiday fun will be wearing off by Jan 1st week. (Damn! no more actual vacation till May for some people)
2) New year resolutions to clean up
Or maybe just deciding to keep a united front till the visits for the year are over- and then - BAM!
Or lawyers go away on their vacations too, and backlog is taken up in first week of Jan.
interesting... I was thinking about the vacation back log as well... but, coincidence to jan 7 is kind of odd though... would be interesting to know where the source of this statistics is...
One thing I am not sure is how the pattern can repeat every year... for one thing, what if it falls on a sunday (like 2007) when it is a court holiday?
@ Mindframes: good point. The rejoinder to my blog is the first working Monday after the 5th of January each year. Now that should be more feasible I suppose. And the source is
http://makewealthhistory.org/2008/01/07/divorce-day-january-7th/
Note that there are some imputations too. Since they mention that this is the D-day, I presume it is a comparison between previous years also. Because as of today, they do not know what is the likely filings for the rest of the year. Hence, the point that they conclude that this is the day means that it must be some historical pattern (again it is a presumption).
If you go to the quoted site's quoted site (insidedivorce.com), it says the following...
Monday 8th January is Britain's D-Day (Divorce Day)
I dont know why the digg-blog quoted 7th...
@ Mindframes: America and UK have to be different...if they drive on the left there, you have to drive on the right here...if they call something platform, they have to call em footpath...so if Britain celebrates D-Day on 8th, they have to be a day ahead and hold it on the 7th...maybe thats why the blog quoted the date as the 7th.
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