The latest listing of all states' divorce rates, from the Centers for Disease Control's National Center for Health Statistics, only has rates through 2004. The same information appears in the Vital Statistics Section of the 2006 Statistical Abstract of the U.S. (It is p. 68 , No. 111.) Future Statistical Abstracts, hopefully with updated information on this, will be available at http://www.census.gov/statab/www/
Americans for Divorce Reform has incorporated this 2004 information into its study and charts comparing states' waiting periods and other aspects of divorce law with their divorce rates. It found that long waiting periods -- 18 or 24 months, with substantial reductions in the waiting period when both spouses consent to the divorce -- correlate with substantially lower divorce rates.
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