Divorce Statistics and Studies Blog

Swedish Study: Adult children of divorce not harmed (except women in 20s)

Children of divorce not harmed - Stockholm News.

This is in contrast to pretty much all research findings in the US, where even the studies that are billed as pro-divorce actually indicate significant differences from children of intact families.

Divorce rate still holding at low of 3.4 per 1000 (or 0.68%) annually

CDC National Vital Statistics Report - Volume 58 Number 15. These latest reported rates are for the 12 months ending in July, 2009. For more detail on what this means see last month's post on this topic.

Visa Predicts Divorce? Denied! Sort of.

The Family Law News Blog: How Visa Predicts Divorce (revised).
Thanks, Adam Braff, for alerting me to Visa's denial.

How Visa Predicts Divorce

How Visa Predicts Divorce.

Divorce rate holding at low of 0.68% annual per capita (3.4 per 1000 US population)

National Vital Statistics Report - Volume 58 Number 13.

This latest, provisionally-reported rate is for the 12 months ending in June, 2009. It is reported at 3.4 divorces per 1000 population. A more familiar way to express it would be 0.34%; or, since there are two people in every divorce, 0.68% of the entire population got divorced during that 12-month period.

The report also includes absolute numbers of divorce for each state for May and year-to-date, with the similar figures from the last two years for comparison.

Divorce figures exclude data for California, Georgia, Hawaii, Indiana, Louisiana, and Minnesota, because those states do not even collect divorce rate information. Population bases for divorce rates also exclude these states. Divorce figures include reported annulments. There is considerable variability among the states in the procedures that are used to submit the counts of marriages and divorces to NCHS and in the extent to which the states update their counts of marriages and divorces as new information is received. Therefore, counts vary in their completeness. Marriage and divorce counts, unlike other provisional data, may be updated after the end of a data year if final counts are provided by the state.

This latest, provisionally-reported rate is for the 12 months ending in June, 2009. It is reported at 3.4 divorces per 1000 population. A more familiar way to express it would be 0.34%; or, since there are two people in every divorce, 0.68% of the entire population got divorced during that 12-month period.

The report also includes absolute numbers of divorce for each state for May and year-to-date, with the similar figures from the last two years for comparison.

Divorce figures exclude data for California, Georgia, Hawaii, Indiana, Louisiana, and Minnesota, because those states do not even collect divorce rate information. Population bases for divorce rates also exclude these states. Divorce figures include reported annulments. There is considerable variability among the states in the procedures that are used to submit the counts of marriages and divorces to NCHS and in the extent to which the states update their counts of marriages and divorces as new information is received. Therefore, counts vary in their completeness. Marriage and divorce counts, unlike other provisional data, may be updated after the end of a data year if final counts are provided by the state.