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"... Traditionally, later marriage has meant a lesser chance of divorce.
The problem for Gen X is that in recent years, even as the age of first
marriages has risen, the divorce rate for people in their 20s and 30s has
held steady. "We would have expected the divorce rate to go down under
those circumstances," says University of Wisconsin demographer Larry
Bumpass.
"It implies that people marrying at later ages are divorcing at higher
rates than they used to."
--From "Can Generation Xers--many
of them the children of divorce--make their own
marriages last?" By Kendall Hamilton and Pat Wingert, on the
Smart Marriages Listserv Archive
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