Item from the Smart
Marriages Archive, reproduced in the Divorce Statistics
Collection
September 25, 1998
Younger people in the U.S. who are marrying for the first time face
roughly a 40-50% chance of divorcing in their lifetime under current
trends (U.S. Bureau of the Census, 1992, p. 5).
Of first marriages that end in divorce, many end in the first 3 to 5
years. (As one example, for first marriages ending in divorce among
women aged 25 to 29, the median length of marriage before divorce in
1990 was 3.4 years; U.S. Bureau of the Census, 1992, p. 4).
-- From a September 25, 1998 posting on the Smart
Marriages Archive, probably by Scott Stanley
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