Kenneth Wincorn on the Divorce Statistics in the United States

RICHARDSON, TX, September 22, 2010

Kenneth Wincorn has learned that in 2008, 46% of all marriages involve a remarriage for one or both spouses. In fact, it is estimated that 40% of all marriages have ended in divorce as of 2008. On average, first marriages that end in divorce last about eight years. Of the first marriages for women from 1955 to 1959, about 79 percent marked their 15th anniversary, compared with only 57 percent for women who married for the first time from 1985 to 1989. Kenneth Wincorn explains that the median time between divorce and a second marriage was about three and a half years.

The overall divorce rate is in decline in the U.S., but so is the marriage rate. Kenneth Wincorn recalls a 1995 study that found a wide range of unassociated factors including frequency of sex, wealth, race, and religious commitment. The latter finding is contradicted by a study by the Barna Group, which found that a higher divorce rate was associated with infrequent church attendance.

In 2001, Kenneth Wincorn recognized that marriages between people of different faiths were three times more likely to be divorced than those of the same faith. In a 1993 study, members of two mainline Protestant religions had a 1 in 5 chance of being divorced in 5 years; a Catholic and an Evangelical, a one in three chance; a Jew and a Christian, a 40% chance.

While cohabitation has been shown to be associated with higher divorce rates, a study indicates that divorce-prone couples tend to first cohabit, and a number do not go on to get married, basically leading the researchers to conclude that without cohabitation, the divorce rate would be higher.
Success in marriage has been associated with higher education and higher age. 81% of college graduates, over 26 years of age, who wed in the 1980s, were still married 20 years later. According to Kenneth Wincorn, 65% of college graduates under 26 who married in the 1980s, were still married 20 years later. 49% of high school graduates under 26 years old who married in the 1980s, were still married 20 years later. Population studies have found that in 2004 and 2008, liberal-voting states have lower rates of divorce than conservative-voting states, possibly because people in liberal states tend to wait longer before getting married.

Kenneth Wincorn has learned that the National Center for Health Statistics reports that from 1975 to 1988 in the US, in families with children present, wives file for divorce in approximately two-thirds of cases. Kenneth Wincorn explains that in 1975, 71.4% of the cases were filed by women, and in 1988, 65% were filed by women. It is estimated that upwards of 95% of divorces in the US are "uncontested," because the two parties are able to come to an agreement without a hearing about the property, children and support issues.

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