Divorce in U.S. Plunges to 35-Year Low

[jamesbond]

The U.S. divorce rate has fallen for the third consecutive year, to its lowest level in more than 35 years, according to data released Thursday.

Meanwhile, marriage is up a bit, at 32.3 marriages for every 1,000 unmarried women age 15 or older last year, from 31.9 in 2014. It was the highest since 2009, suggesting that, after a plunge of several decades, matrimony could be stabilizing.

“The decline has stopped,” said Wendy Manning, co-director of the National Center for Family & Marriage Research at Bowling Green State University.

Every year, the center uses census data to calculate the previous year’s marriage and divorce trends. This year’s calculations show that divorce has been dropping quickly, to a rate of 16.9, down from 17.6 in 2014 and a peak of almost 23 in 1980.

It’s hard to know exactly why divorce is in decline. Factors could include the aging of the U.S. population, changing gender roles, and the fact that there are fewer marriages to break up in the first place.

And unfortunately, the decline in year-to-year divorce statistics doesn’t necessarily mean any particular marriage is more likely to last.

Baby boomers, for example, married young and have continued marrying and divorcing even at older ages, while it isn’t clear yet whether millennials and Generation X will follow suit. Look at the marriage rate. One reason it has fallen so steeply over the decades is that these younger generations have pushed getting married further into adulthood. Many sociologists believe the typical marriage today still has about a 50/50 probability of lasting, the same chance it had decades ago.

“We’ve seen a decline of divorce among people who are younger and an increase among people who are older,” Manning said.
Is there any such thing as a typical marriage? Divorce and marriage rates vary widely among different segments of the population. Washington, D.C., and Wyoming had divorce rates last year of 29.9 and 27.9, the highest in the country. Next came Nevada, Arkansas, and Alaska. The lowest divorce rates were in Hawaii, at 11.1, followed by Wisconsin, Rhode Island, Delaware, and New Jersey, all under 13.

The northeastern U.S. has the lowest marriage rates, and Utah, not surprisingly, the highest. At 61.3, Utah's marriage rate is nearly three times Rhode Island's of 21.4. But here's a surprise: Utah's divorce rate is about 18, higher than in 40 percent of the states. Well, it's a lot of marriages to roll the dice on.

Marriage has been holding steady for the past several years, but weddings are still half as common as they were in the 1970s and early 1980s. What are Americans doing instead? Some are staying single and living alone, but many couples are doing what used to be called living in sin, sharing a home without officially tying the knot.

That includes millions of older couples. According to another recent study by the National Center for Family & Marriage Research, the number of Americans over 50 living together unmarried almost tripled from 2000 to 2014, to 3.2 million.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/ ... 5-year-low

[w.p.o.]

Perhaps people aren't getting married as often as they used to. Western women are freaking crazy, therefore men are holding out. RIgged divorced courts due to feminism bull$hit. This study is probably conducted the same way they conducted the unemployment; They don't consider the ones who gave up looking for work, those whose benefits have run out and/or those who are now working under the table. How else would they come up with a far-fetched 5% unemployment rate when a third of the country is out of work?! The numbers are totally skewed. The same goes for the divorce rate. When conducting the study, they don't consider the mgtow movement. American men boycotting american (western) women. Men marrying foreigners (women who don't believe in divorce unless you do something extraordinarily stupid). The numbers are totally skewed.

[Mercury]

You just wait! When Trump deports all the ethnic women, the divorce rate is going to skyrocket right through the roof! By July 2018, America will see 100% divorce rates. Even before then, there will be huge riots over the deportation of ethnic women, but those riots will in fact result in a nationwide criminalization of straight (man/woman) marriage under Federal law. It will result in armed platoons, ready to start a war, smashing through doors, breaking up all straight marriages, forcefully snatching husbands from wives and wives from husbands, snatching brothers from sisters, aunts from uncles, it will also result in the Federal government immediately dividing the country by gender, men on one side, women on the other side, a wide military zone in between, before you know it, only gay and lesbian marriages will be legal under Federal law. Many will fight the soldiers that are breaking up their marriages, only to get immediately blasted to smithereens and cause even a full military lockdown of the entire country.

[MrMan]

You just wait! When Trump deports all the ethnic women, the divorce rate is going to skyrocket right through the roof! By July 2018, America will see 100% divorce rates. Even before then, there will be huge riots over the deportation of ethnic women, but those riots will in fact result in a nationwide criminalization of straight (man/woman) marriage under Federal law. It will result in armed platoons, ready to start a war, smashing through doors, breaking up all straight marriages, forcefully snatching husbands from wives and wives from husbands, snatching brothers from sisters, aunts from uncles, it will also result in the Federal government immediately dividing the country by gender, men on one side, women on the other side, a wide military zone in between, before you know it, only gay and lesbian marriages will be legal under Federal law. Many will fight the soldiers that are breaking up their marriages, only to get immediately blasted to smithereens and cause even a full military lockdown of the entire country.

Is that your most recent movie script?

[MrMan]

Maybe more people who aren't serious about marriage just shack up since that's considered socially acceptable now.

[w.p.o.]

You just wait! When Trump deports all the ethnic women, the divorce rate is going to skyrocket right through the roof! By July 2018, America will see 100% divorce rates. Even before then, there will be huge riots over the deportation of ethnic women, but those riots will in fact result in a nationwide criminalization of straight (man/woman) marriage under Federal law. It will result in armed platoons, ready to start a war, smashing through doors, breaking up all straight marriages, forcefully snatching husbands from wives and wives from husbands, snatching brothers from sisters, aunts from uncles, it will also result in the Federal government immediately dividing the country by gender, men on one side, women on the other side, a wide military zone in between, before you know it, only gay and lesbian marriages will be legal under Federal law. Many will fight the soldiers that are breaking up their marriages, only to get immediately blasted to smithereens and cause even a full military lockdown of the entire country.

Are you really that stupid, or do you do this on purpose to pi$$ people off?! No man in their right mind will bring their foreign wife to the states so they can get westernized. That would defeat the purpose. This would only work if she's 30+ and is set in her ways (i.e Melania Trump). Besides, most foreign women (excluding cubans, venezuelans, north koreans) want to stay in their country anyway. They would like to visit, but would not care to stay. They are more comfortable and prefer to be in their homeland. Take Bret "hitman" Hart for instance. He was engaged to an italian woman. Bret wanted to continue to live in canada, but his former fiance wanted to stay in Italy. Unfortunately neither one wanted to compromise and the engagement was broken off. He's now dating a black chick (as if having a stroke wasn't bad enough).

[w.p.o.]

You just wait! When Trump deports all the ethnic women, the divorce rate is going to skyrocket right through the roof! By July 2018, America will see 100% divorce rates. Even before then, there will be huge riots over the deportation of ethnic women, but those riots will in fact result in a nationwide criminalization of straight (man/woman) marriage under Federal law. It will result in armed platoons, ready to start a war, smashing through doors, breaking up all straight marriages, forcefully snatching husbands from wives and wives from husbands, snatching brothers from sisters, aunts from uncles, it will also result in the Federal government immediately dividing the country by gender, men on one side, women on the other side, a wide military zone in between, before you know it, only gay and lesbian marriages will be legal under Federal law. Many will fight the soldiers that are breaking up their marriages, only to get immediately blasted to smithereens and cause even a full military lockdown of the entire country.

You just described a portion of obummer and hitlery's agenda. Difference is they want more illegals for the sake of votes.

In case you missed the memo, a foreigner who is married to you is not considered an illegal according to marriage law. As of today, that law hasn't changed. If you divorce, THEN she's in trouble. Trump plans on deporting illegal CRIMINALS first. Deporting all illegals will be more difficult. That's why he 'changed his tune.' Remember he's getting advice from border patrol and ICE. He also wants the immigration process to be more fluid. No more waiting 10 to 20+ years to receive citizenship. The laws that are already in place will finally be enforced. What part of that are you having difficulty with?

[Kradmelder]

You just wait! When Trump deports all the ethnic women, the divorce rate is going to skyrocket right through the roof! By July 2018, America will see 100% divorce rates. Even before then, there will be huge riots over the deportation of ethnic women, but those riots will in fact result in a nationwide criminalization of straight (man/woman) marriage under Federal law. It will result in armed platoons, ready to start a war, smashing through doors, breaking up all straight marriages, forcefully snatching husbands from wives and wives from husbands, snatching brothers from sisters, aunts from uncles, it will also result in the Federal government immediately dividing the country by gender, men on one side, women on the other side, a wide military zone in between, before you know it, only gay and lesbian marriages will be legal under Federal law. Many will fight the soldiers that are breaking up their marriages, only to get immediately blasted to smithereens and cause even a full military lockdown of the entire country.

You just described a portion of obummer and hitlery's agenda. Difference is they want more illegals for the sake of votes.

In case you missed the memo, a foreigner who is married to you is not considered an illegal according to marriage law. As of today, that law hasn't changed. If you divorce, THEN she's in trouble. Trump plans on deporting illegal CRIMINALS first. Deporting all illegals will be more difficult. That's why he 'changed his tune.' Remember he's getting advice from border patrol and ICE. He also wants the immigration process to be more fluid. No more waiting 10 to 20+ years to receive citizenship. The laws that are already in place will finally be enforced. What part of that are you having difficulty with?

Are you saying that in the USA if a foreign bride divorces you she loses all residence Rights, work permit rights etc? Is there a minimum marriage time to this? Here even marrying a foreigner doesn't give her rights to enter the country if you are white. So you can marry and be forced to live apart. If I marry a foreigner they will say what skill does she bring, how will she teach a darkie to replace her yadda yadda wakka wakka fish paste.

I would never marry an American to live there nor would I accept living in USA if I was paid to. Nothing against americans, but your system is just not for me.

if what you say is right then any foreign bride is a slave at risk of deportment if she divoices. So what is the problem of bringing her back to usa?

[Mercury]

Are you saying that in the USA if a foreign bride divorces you she loses all residence Rights, work permit rights etc? Is there a minimum marriage time to this? Here even marrying a foreigner doesn't give her rights to enter the country if you are white. So you can marry and be forced to live apart. If I marry a foreigner they will say what skill does she bring, how will she teach a darkie to replace her yadda yadda wakka wakka fish paste.

I would never marry an American to live there nor would I accept living in USA if I was paid to. Nothing against americans, but your system is just not for me.

if what you say is right then any foreign bride is a slave at risk of deportment if she divoices. So what is the problem of bringing her back to usa?

Foreign/ethnic women are generally nicer than white trash American women. And white American guys who marry ethnic women, especially if the guy does not have or make enough money to move to another country, they know that white American women are trash, and that if he loses his ethnic wife to a tyrannical government deporting all of the ethnics (even those with valid American citizenship), he may as well chop off his genitals, or even just fight the soldiers taking his wife away even if it means a whole bunch of F-16s and B-52s carpet bombing the whole neighborhood followed by an immediate nationwide military lockdown and nationwide Martial law.

[Adama]

Listen to this garbage. Men Going The Other (WRONG) Way are filled with wankers who make up these stories. They tell these stories to each other until they all believe them. It is nothing but a circle jerk of foolishness. Then when you try to wake them up by telling them it isn't reality, they hate you. They even think that celebrity marriages are representative of normal people. Almost all the things MGTOW believe in are baseless nonsense and fearmongering from men who are clueless to other men who are completely clueless. I am so happy not to be one of them.

[xtravel]

Divorce is dropping because the economy is crap and it is expensive to get divorced.

Nothing to see here, move on.

[Contrarian Expatriate]

Oh, great. So people are opting to stay together miserably to avoid the cost, turmoil, and negative impact on children. Why is this seen as a good thing.

Yesterday, I learned that a senior manager's wife is having an affair with one of his subordinates. The subordinate is married and his wife was seen on the verge of being physically abuse with him as a consequence. Ugly divorce is going to figure prominently with both of these couples.

I am so so happy I avoided the marriage dupe!