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Mid-30s women in divorce danger.
IT'S the danger zone for a married woman. She's between 30 and 34, and in her career and child-bearing prime. But she's also at the greatest risk of divorce.According to new figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics, women in this age group have the highest divorce rate, a trend that has been emerging gradually for 10 years.
The typical divorced bloke, on the other hand, is getting older.
Forty to 44-year-old men are now more divorced than any other male age-group, according to ABS analysis of the latest divorce figures from 2002.
In 2001, it was men in their mid to late thirties experiencing the highest divorce rate. Now, the median age of a divorced male is 42.2, up from 38.7 a decade ago.

Part of the ageing of the divorced male may be attributed to some good news. Marriages are actually lasting longer before they dissolve in separation, followed by divorce.
Men and women also continue to marry older, leading to an ageing divorced population.
The median age for marriage is now 29 years for a man, up from 28.7 in 2001 and 26.9 in 1992.
The typical first-time bride is now 27.1, up from 26.9 in 2001 and 24.7 in 1992.
The divorce rate dropped by 2 per cent in 2002, compared with the previous year when Australia recorded its highest ever figure of 55,300.
But 54,000 divorces in 2002 still represents an 18 per cent increase in 10 years.
The typical marriage that ends in divorce will now last 12 years, compared with 10.5 years a decade ago, or 11.8 years in 2001.
But one third of all divorces are the result of marriages that have failed within five years from the wedding.
Only 6 per cent of divorces result from separation within the first year of marriage, but the bulk of divorcing couples (58 per cent) have been married for a decade or longer.
Significant age differences between a husband and wife also point to a longer-lasting marriage.
Only 10 per cent of divorcing couples had an age difference of 10 years or more.
But couples who were the closest in age (a difference of one to two years) made up 33 per cent of divorcing couples, or the largest single group.
Children may be doing slightly better out of the divorce stakes too.
For 10 years, the proportion of divorces involving kids under 18 has been falling.
Yet half of all divorces in 2002 involved children, down only three per cent in a decade.
When there are kids involved, the majority (62 per cent) of divorces include children where the youngest is under 10.
More than one third of divorces involved children as young as the five to nine-year-old age group.