Check it out. On page 18, Table 7...there it is, in black and white.
Despite what the media says, America remains an nation largely of married folks. Using the IRS’ SOI data, 54 million filers in 2014 out of 149 million filers were Married filing jointly, with about 29 million being married filing single. That’s a whole lot of married people.
The divorce rate is not 50% - this is one of the most abused statistics out there...the divorce rate is NOT the quotient of annual marriages and divorces...the divorce rate is #of annual divorces divided by number of marriages at the beginning of the year.
While the 2014 divorce total of 814k excludes data for California, Georgia, Hawaii, Indiana, and Minnesota, let’s be conservative and gross up 814k by 20%/close to the percentage of electoral votes those states represent...about one million divorces versus about 64 million marriages (54 million married filing jointly couples plus 29/2 million married filing single) is 1/68.5 or a 1.5% divorce rate. BOOM!
No, the NUMERIC TRUTH is Americans love marriage, love the institution of marriage, and have not caved in to magazines and the media, pushing an anti-marriage agenda. Americans voting with their lives generally belie that false narrative.
Please read your own link, and the “ Marriage the First Ten years.” It says Women have a 50% chance of divorce in first ten years...
Overall, marriage is now under the 50% mark, but not 68-70% in first ten years, as I read your link!
I am not against marriage, I have a good one. And if CA were included it might raise the divorce rate. Read your own link article that says it is about 50% for women in first ten years.
From what I understand , that erroneous 50% divorce rate is caused by including people who divorce NUMEROUS TIMES. That is what skews the divorce rate numbers. If you look at first marriage statistics, the divorce rate is quite low.