This AP story includes several new observations based on the just-released report by the Census Bureau's longtime divorce analyst, Rose Kreider. They include:
- 41% of women in their 50s have been divorced. (Much more accurate than the usual census counts, which undercount divorce by not counting people who have married again.)
- Roughly 46% of couples married 25 years ago are divorced.
- Younger people and more recently-married couples have less divorce than their counterparts did in the past.
- The "seven year itch" -- the length of marriages that end in divorce -- is a mathematical average of a wide range of numbers -- there's not really any tendency for marriages to break up after seven years.
[Note: The news story link below seems not to work as of 5/30/12, but we've added the link above directly to the Census Bureau report.]
Census: Divorces decline but 7-year itch persists - Sacramento News - Local and Breaking Sacramento News | Sacramento Bee.
On your Divorces per 1,000 the 3rd column should be centered, not left justified, it would look better
Posted by: Skip0057 | June 06, 2012 at 05:15 AM