Valentines - to love and to divorce!!!

Love and Divorce

https://www.mckinleyirvin.com/family-law-blog/2012/october/32-shocking-divorce-statistics/

We just finished Valentine’s Day.  

I want to do a series on marriage - staying married hints.  But, as I was researching marriage, I kept bumping into divorce, so, let’s start with a day on divorce.

Today - almost all come from the link above (word for word)

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“United States Divorce Statistics

Most people have heard the statistic that “50 percent of marriages end in divorce.” That stat originated in the 1980s and researchers believe the rate of divorce has since steadily dropped. Today, (updated in 2018) it is thought approximately 42-45 percent of marriages in the United States end in divorce (this does not include legal separations).

When you break that down by the number of marriages:

• 42-45% percent of first marriages end in divorce.
• 60% of second marriages end in divorce.
• 73% of third marriages end in divorce.

Another way to look at divorce statistics: In the United States, currently 22% of women and 21% of men have ever been divorced in their lives (divorced once or more) and 11% of women and 9% of men are currently divorced (not remarried)

More about divorce

Divorce Facts

• In the United States, there is one divorce approximately every 36 seconds. That's nearly 2,400 divorces per day, 16,800 divorces per week and 876,000 divorces a year.
• The average length of a first marriage that ends in divorce is 8 years.
• The probability of a first marriage ending in separation or divorce in the first 5 years is 20% and in 10 years is 33%.
• The average age for couples going through a divorce is 30 years old.
• On average, a person spends about two years thinking about divorce before taking action.
• About 3 out of every 4 divorced people will remarry.
• People wait an average of 3 years after a divorce to remarry (if they remarry at all).
• Six percent of divorced couples end up remarrying each other
• The U.S. government stopped collecting detailed marriage and divorce statistics in 1996, so other data sources, such as the U.S. Census and independent researchers, are used to estimate divorce rates and other statistics.

Statistics On The Likelihood Of Divorce

What increases your risk of divorce?

• People are more likely to divorce the younger they were when they got married or moved in with their future spouse.
• The more of your co-workers who are the opposite sex, the higher your risk of divorce.
• Having friends, family members, or co-workers who are recently divorced.
• Living in an area with a high concentration of conservative or evangelical Protestants
• Higher spending on both the engagement ring and the wedding has been linked to shorter marriage durations.
• Not marrying someone close to your own age increases your risk of divorce.

What decreases the likelihood of divorce?

• People who wait to marry or cohabitate until they are over the age of 23 are less likely to get divorced.
• If you've attended college, your risk of divorce decreases by 13 percent.
• If you have a baby after getting married (at least 7 months after), your risk of divorce decreases by 24%.
• You’re less likely to divorce if your annual income is over $25,000
• If your parents are happily married, your risk of divorce decreases by 14 percent

Divorce And Children Statistics

• 16 percent of children are living in a “blended family” – a household with a stepparent, stepsibling, or half-sibling.
• The negative effects caused by divorce on children (anger, anxiety, shock) are typically resolved by the end of the second year after a divorce, with a minority of children who take longer to adjust.
• High-conflict parents during divorce results in children experiencing more difficulty adjusting to life post-divorce.
• Mothers are the primary residential parent after a divorce in 5 out of 6 cases

To be continued tomorrow!!!

Hugs (stay married - if you can!!!)

Karen