As a kid, it seemed like divorce was everywhere. When my parents split, we lived in an apartment. A bunch of single moms and their kids were renters too. It was a building of women and kids running the halls and playing until dark. When I heard "half of all marriages end in divorce", I believed it, it's what I saw.
We still hear that statistic all the time from marriage skeptics. But that's actually not true at all.
According to a new USA Today report, divorce rates in the U.S. have actually been declining since the 1980s, not rising. In fact, today’s marriages are often stronger because people are waiting longer to tie the knot, which means they’re more financially stable and emotionally mature when they do.
But there's a bit of a twist. Another contributing factor of the declining divorce rate is that fewer Americans are getting married. The only area where divorce is actually rising is among couples over the age of 45, especially women over 65. This is referred to as a "gray divorce."
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