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The divorce rate in the U.S. has fallen to its lowest levels in over 35 years, a report published Thursday has found. The divorce rate fell for its third consecutive year in 2015, the data indicated.
The report by Bowling Green State University’s National Center for Family and Marriage Research in Ohio also found that the marriage rate in the U.S. has gone up and is at its highest since 2009. The rate rose from 31.9 marriages for every 1,000 unmarried women aged 15 and older in 2014 to 32.3 marriages in 2015. The annual report uses the previous year’s census data to calculate marriage and divorce rates.
“The decline has stopped,” Wendy Manning, co-director of the National Center for Family and Marriage Research, reportedly said.
Divorce rate in the country has dropped to 16.9 in 2015 from 17.6 in 2014. The rate has decreased by 25 percent since 1980 when it was at its peak at 22.6. Washington D.C. has had the highest divorce rate for two years straight with nearly 30 in […]
When are we going to get the state out of the marriage business already? It stands to reason that over time, as greater numbers of people reject placing the state seal of approval on their private relationship…the rate of divorce should stabilize because those few who do choose to get married are self-selecting and more likely to highly value the institution itself as evidenced by their motivation to take the extra step of obtaining a marriage license in the face of an opposite trend. Besides the obvious entrenched legal matters & tax issues associated with marriage, why would anybody ask their government for permission in sanctioning their private choice?