whats the percentage of marriages that end in divorce?

Question

has it changed from 50%

Answer 1

60% of first marriages end in divorce.

50% of second marriages end in divorce.

Look at the length of marriages and you can see the numbers.

Take care,
Troy

Answer 2

Yes - it is higher now. I have often wondered why couples really bother getting married these days. Perhaps leasing a spouse with option to buy would be a better idea in today's society. If both people are happy with things after the lease period is over the marriage contract actually becomes legal and binding(for real, unlike today's marriages where most states are no fault for divorce). There should be a limit as to how many times a person can marry then ditch people.
Seriously though . . . I do think steps need to be taken to educate young people about how seriously marriage should be treated. Kids should know that marriages shouldn't be treated as disposable. When things get rough (or they get bored) there are steps that can be taken to mend the relationship (and even strengthen it). Instant gratification and too much emphasis on personal pleasure without consequences needs to become a thing of the past.

Answer 3

This is the Census Bureau's often-cited "50%" rate, the proportion of marriages taking place right now that will eventually divorce, which has since been revised downward to roughly 43% by the National Center for Health Statistics but was moved back up to around 50% by the Census Bureau in 2002, with even more ifs ands and buts than usual. Most recently, according to the New York Times, it has been revised downward to just over 40%.

Answer 4

What is the current divorce rate in the United States? Has the divorce rate changed much over the past 5 to 10 years?

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

Answer 5

1/2

Answer 6

Mine did. It lasted until I sobered up.About 3 days then it was annulled.My 3rd marriage lasted over 20 years but it ended in divorce because she was cheating. NEXT!

Answer 7

I think they say 7 out of 10 marriages end in divorce--so like 70%

Answer 8

last i heard it was 50%
but remember that doesn't mean half of all people get divorced.
one couple can stay married for 80 years
and then one person can get married and divorced three times.
which means three of four of those marriages end in divorce.
you have to think about how percentages are constructed.
if one person gets married & divorced 12 times as you can see,
a couple that stays married forever still means that only 1 of those 13 marriages lasted.

Answer 9

It also depends on the ages of the people involved and the length they have been dating. If you have a young couple (say 22 years each) and they get married after dating one year, then their chance of getting a divorce is upwards towards 80%-90%. The scary part is that there are MANY couple that follow this scenario.

Answer 10

I am not sure but at the rate of divorces you wonder when they will issue permits first for it.

It is pretty sad really that most marriages are not worth it to the couple to try to work it out.