Divorce-Proof Your Marriage
Charles Orlando gives the divorce stats and preps married folk with the ammunition to avoid splitsville.
Toffler’s views hold true today. Having accurately predicted the coming trends, he could see how men and women would begin to view marriage as a temporary state of being, and today the divorce rate still hovers at just over 50 percent. But that “50%” data point is just common data point. Here’s the data — culled from the US Census and the Association of Divorce Reform:
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Divorce is all the rage. Prenumps, Hollywood-style relationships that end after 72 days… the notion that marriage is a temporary institution isn’t new. Sociologist and futurist Alvin Toffler wrote the best-seller Future Shock in 1970, and with matter-of-fact conviction, he wrote of the rising trend of “trial” or “temporary marriages” — first marriages of young people, lasting three months to three years, and of “serial marriages” that would take place after the dissolution of the “trial marriage,” happening at specific turning points in people’s lives.Toffler’s views hold true today. Having accurately predicted the coming trends, he could see how men and women would begin to view marriage as a temporary state of being, and today the divorce rate still hovers at just over 50 percent. But that “50%” data point is just common data point. Here’s the data — culled from the US Census and the Association of Divorce Reform:
- 19.5 million adults have been divorced at least once.
- 50% of all marriages end in divorce within five years.
- Of the couples that last five years, only 50% make it to their 10th wedding anniversary (That’s a 75% divorce rate before the 10th anniversary)
- Over 80% of divorcees reference "irreconcilable differences" as the reason for separation.
- 63% of youth suicides
- 90% of homeless/runaway children
- 85% of children with behavior problems
- 71% of high school dropouts
- 85% of youths in prison
- Over 50% of teen mothers
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