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Marriage and Divorce by the Numbers
February 26, 2018It is an often cited statistic that “half of all marriages end in divorce”, but this is simply not true. In fact, the divorce rate in the U.S. has declined in recent decades, due to many social and other factors. The myth of the 50 percent divorce may stem from a report written in 1980 by the National Center for Health Statistics, which incorrectly predicted that half of all marriages taking place between 1976-77 would end in divorce and that this […]
