4/07Maximum body-mass index that China now allows for any foreigner adopting a Chinese infant: 39

China Center of Adoption Affairs (Beijing)

    Maximum number of divorces that prospective parents can have between them: 2

China Center of Adoption Affairs (Beijing)

4/96Percentage of American children of divorced parents who have not seen their father in the last year: 40

Frank Furstenberg, University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia)

6/94Rank of Arkansas among states with the highest divorce rate in 1992: 1

National Center for Health Statistics (Hyattsville, Md.)

8/89Ratio of the number of divorces filed by women to the number filed by men: 2:1

National Center for Health Statistics (Hyattsville, Md.)

4/95Number of the 29 divorced members of the House of Representatives who are Democrats: 21

Congressional Quarterly (Washington)/Harper’s research