I am doing a research for my college. Please, help me know the answer to this question: From people that get married in the United States, how many percentage will end up divorcing?
2006-07-06 09:03:47 · 16 answers · asked by mehran_kimi 2 in Family & Relationships ➔ Marriage & Divorce
They are gonna tell you that it's about 50% - but that is not true. For every two marriages that occurred in the 1990s, there was one divorce. This does not mean that the divorce rate is 50%. Although, it is correct that in the United States during most of the 1990s, there were about two marriages for every divorce in a single year. But this does not mean that the divorce rate is 50% because the people getting married in a single year are not the same ones getting divorced. This is a very common error and it results from the fact that that Vital Statistics report the numbers of marriages and divorces for each year. It is easy to think that some type of divorce rate can be calculated from these numbers, but it can't.
The divorce rate in the United States has generally been going up throughout the 20th century until its peak in the late 1970s. The rate of divorce has been slowly declining since that peak. In the most recent data, there were about 20 divorces for every 1,000 women over the age of 15. This number is down from about 23 divorces per 1,000 women in 1978, but it is still significantly greater than the rate of divorce during the 1950s. At that time, the rate of divorce was about 5 per 1,000 women.
The divorce rate has been climbing in every industrialized country in the world. There are two significant factors affecting the rising divorce rate in the United States and elsewhere: (1) men and women are less in need of each other for economic survival, and (2) gains made in birth control allow men and women to separate sexual activity from having children.
A variety of factors are producing the current leveling off of the divorce rate. We may be at the end of the effects produced by the emergence of reliable birth control in the 1960s, but there are also other factors. Our population is aging, and in general longer marriages are more likely to remain intact. Also, more young people are cohabiting rather than getting married. The breakup of this kind of relationship does not get recorded as a divorce.
2006-07-06 09:08:23 · answer #1 · answered by two 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well sir, you're looking in the wrong place if you want precise statistics. However, in the USA fully half of all marriages end in divorce within five years. The most divorces occur amongst the most conservative Christian groups of Americans.
2006-07-06 09:16:04 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Its a chance marriage is but i would say about 50 % will end divorce
2006-07-06 09:07:29 · answer #3 · answered by ladyoh 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
its hard to say...ever since it was accepted in society to get divorced more people seem to be careless about who they get married to. People cheat and people marry soley for money. I would say about 65% but wish it was lower!
2006-07-06 09:09:38 · answer #4 · answered by talkshoe 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Anaverage of 58%
2016-03-27 06:47:05 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Statistics say it's currently at 60% right now. If you are in second or third marriages, it's even worse!
2006-07-06 09:06:16 · answer #6 · answered by reignydey 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
50% will end in divorce.
2006-07-06 09:09:35 · answer #7 · answered by Bubsy 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
now in the miltary i think its 75 persent. iv been in though, and ive been in the miltary for 10 years, i have been married for 8 years. and still going.
2006-07-06 09:09:26 · answer #8 · answered by jackpack 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
30 percent thats an estimation
2006-07-06 09:05:52 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
In 2002 it was 38%, for more info go http://www.divorcereform.org/rates.html
2006-07-06 09:09:17 · answer #10 · answered by ewa b 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋