Divorced From Reality - New York Times

Divorced From Reality - New York Times

The story of ever-increasing divorce is a powerful narrative. It is also wrong. In fact, the divorce rate has been falling continuously over the past quarter-century, and is now at its lowest level since 1970. While marriage rates are also declining, those marriages that do occur are increasingly more stable. For instance, marriages that began in the 1990s were more likely to celebrate a 10th anniversary than those that started in the 1980s, which, in turn, were also more likely to last than marriages that began back in the 1970s.

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the census bureau just reported a new study that is being wrongly interpreted all over. the divorce rate is in fact going down. if you'd like a quick review of the facts, go read this article. if you'd like a longer review of the facts, get the study and read the footnotes, not just the tables. (the tables are misleading, but not inaccurate, as long as you read the whole study.)