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Updates Divorce Stats #445687
05/31/21 08:24 AM
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New Research from Harvard educated researcher Saunti Feldhahn...

So here are four encouraging facts about marriage we’d like to share with you.

FACT #1: The divorce rate for society as a whole is not 50% and has never been anywhere close.

Everyone believes there is a 50% divorce rate. There isn’t, and there never has been, for society as a whole.

What’s the divorce rate, then? Let me say that understanding this is incredibly complicated, controversial, and there is no way to know one “real” number. That is why it took us 8 years before we published The Good News About Marriage. But the bottom line is this: in looking at data from the Census Bureau and other reliable sources, it appears that somewhere around 25% of first marriages end in divorce—and the divorce rate has only continued to decline since we published this information! That’s still too high, but it’s a universe different from what we think it is!

This means, if you’re getting married, you can be assured of this awesome fact: Most marriages are strong and happy for a lifetime!

I have seen in research with thousands of people, that when people get into trouble in their marriage, there’s a sneaking feeling that arises: “If the ship is going to sink anyway, why bother trying to bail it out?” It makes an enormous difference if you think to yourself (or tell a troubled friend), “The ship isn’t going to sink! You’re going to make it. Most marriages do.”

FACT #2: The rate of divorce in the church is not the same as society—in fact, it’s nowhere close.

Although there is controversy about what the divorce rate is, there is no controversy about this. Every demographer knows that statement is true: it’s just that every churchgoer doesn’t!

In fact, a long-term Harvard study, published in 2018, found that in the population they tracked, the divorce rate for those who attended church regularly was 50% lower than the divorce rate of those who didn’t!

FACT #3: Remarriages don’t have an insanely high divorce rate.

Do you know anyone who is heading into a second marriage? I talk to people all the time who are—and who are subconsciously expecting that they have a high chance of failure. Because that is what they’ve heard.

Just as for first marriages, no one knows what the exact divorce rate is for second and third marriages. But it turns out all those super high divorce rates you’ve heard—66%, 72%, etc.— are an urban legend. The bottom line is we traced all those references and they tie back to sources that don’t exist.

My favorite example was from Dr. Jennifer Baker, who is a well-known researcher that was quoted in a popularly referenced Psychology Today article as saying she discovered these super high divorce rates. When we asked to look at her study so we could see her methodology, she emailed us back saying “Unfortunately, these statistics are not mine, and even though I have asked the website to remove my name as a source, I’ve been unable to get them to do so.”

It would be funny… if it hadn’t caused so many people to give up on their second marriages.
So, if you’re in a second or third marriage, please know that although no one knows exactly what those divorce rates are, they’re a whole lot closer to first marriage divorce rates than people think. Based on Census Bureau data, the divorce rate for remarriages is probably more like 30%.

FACT #4: Most marriages aren’t just “meh”—they’re actually happy!

Both our studies and all the other studies on satisfaction in marriage that have been done in recent years have found that contrary to popular opinion, most marriages are not “just sort of bumping along.” They’re made up of two people who actually really enjoy being married and enjoy being married to each other.

The average percentage of couples being happy in marriage hovers around 80%. (Our study for our book The Surprising Secrets of Highly Happy Marriages, which independently surveyed both the husband and the wife, found that 71% percent were both happy, and other studies have found more than 90%!)

Be encouraged! The bottom line is that most marriages not only last for a lifetime—they are happy! And it’s not just the engaged and newlywed couples that need to hear this good news—it’s all couples.


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Re: Updates Divorce Stats [Re: Lil] #445703
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Thanks for that post, Lil.

I wonder how many other "facts" are skewed but promoted anyway.


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Interesting article. Thank you for sharing it.

Re: Updates Divorce Stats [Re: Lil] #445802
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Well, those states sure were an encouraging surprise! Thanks, Lil!

Re: Updates Divorce Stats [Re: Lil] #446008
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