By the end of this year, around one million more divorces will have taken place in the United States. That's two million people subject to feelings of anger, betrayal, fear, helplessness and sometimes relief, not counting the children.
And that's also several hundred thousand even richer attorneys.
But it doesn't have to get as deadly as the bloody battles in the movie War of the Roses. Like so many aspects of modern life, it can be a lifestyle choice to be tackled as effortlessly as flipping through a J Crew clothing catalogue.
Indeed, it may well be the case that if Henry VIII had taken out a subscription to Divorce Magazine, he wouldn't have had to send his wives to the Tower of London or have had a diplomatic dispute with the Vatican.
Unfortunately, the much-married monarch did not have that option, because Divorce Magazine - thought to be the first publication of its kind - has only just hit the news-stands in Chicago.
Canadian Dan Couvrette used to be the happy publisher of more orthodox magazine titles such as Wedding Bells (of course) until that fated day his wife uttered the words: 'I want a divorce.' He found that information on divorce and all its legal ramifications, short of going to a lawyer, was impossible to find. So he decided to publish the kind of magazine that told people like him how to cope with one of life's more stressful situations.
