Divorce statistics in the United States

·         60 percent of all divorces occur when individuals are between the ages of 25 and 39

·         Almost 49 percent of marriages end up in divorce

·     The divorce rate of first time marriages is almost 10 percent less than the divorce rate of second marriages

·         Over a 40 year period, 67 percent of first marriages terminate in a divorce and 50 percent of these divorces take place within the first 7 years

·         First marriages end up in divorce on average after less than 8 years

Divorce statistics regarding the risk of divorce

·      In the case of individuals who have attended college, the risk of divorce is reduced by 13 percent

·         If a person has strong religious beliefs, the risk of divorce is 14 percent less

·      When the parents are happily married ,the risk of their children divorcing decreases by 14 percent

·       For those who marry for the first time after they attain the age of 25, the risk of divorce is less by 24 percent

·      If a families’ yearly income is more than 0.5 million, the risk of divorce decreases by 30 percent

Effects of divorce on children

·    The possibility that a teenage girl from a single parent home will give birth to an out-of-wedlock child or will drop out of high school is twice as high as a teenage girl living with both parents

·    50 percent of the children in this country are a witness to the breakup of their parents’ marriage.

·         Almost half of these 50 percent are a witness to the second divorce of a parent.