More than half the Americans who might have celebrated their 25th wedding anniversaries since 2000 were either divorced, separated or widowed...
What I found a little interesting were the last two paragraphs:
Among men over 15, the proportion who have never been married was 28 percent for whites, 45 percent for blacks, 39 for Hispanic people and 33 percent for Asians.Among women over 15, it was 22 percent for whites, 44 percent for blacks, 30 percent for Hispanic people and 23 percent for Asians.
I guess that is the equivalent of saying the percent of people that never marry in their lifetime. I tend to agree with that seven-year itch theory and I've heard as well that if people make it past their 10 year anniversary then there is a good chance that they will stay together beyond that. I would say that probably for the majority of people there is that "honeymoon" period were everything is fine and dandy followed by few rocky years by which at around year 7/8 is where the decision is made. It was brought up in a conversation I had with some friends that because people know that divorce is an option, people are more likely to marry knowing full well that it is not necessarily until "death do us part". I wonder of the percent of marriages that do stay intact, how many actually only stay together because filing for a divorce would incur substantial financial costs and emotional impact on the family whereby the decision to stay together unhappily outweighs those costs of actually getting a divorce. I also wonder if there is a correlation between the length of a marriage and the average age of the two people involved. For example, are younger couples more likely to divorce after the same years being married as an older one?
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