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"First-time marriages: probably 20 to 25 percent have ended in divorce on average," Feldhahn revealed. "Now, okay, that's still too high, but it's a whole lot better than what people think it is."

Shaunti and Jeff point out the 50 percent figure came from projections of what researchers thought the divorce rate would become as they watched the divorce numbers rising in the 1970s and early 1980s when states around the nation were passing no-fault divorce laws.

"But the divorce rate has been dropping," Feldhahn said. "We've never hit those numbers. We've never gotten close."

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Thanks for this post.

Even relying on the “old understandings”, there was always the difference between saying half of all marriages end in divorce, and half of all people who marry will get divorced. There are a lot of serial marrieds that push the divorce rate up.

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Statistics are always unreliable.

“”But the divorce rate has been dropping,” Feldhahn said. “We’ve never hit those numbers. We’ve never gotten close.” “

The marriage rate has been dropping too. That means only those who want to get married are doing it which is probably good.

The other consideration is regarding Catholics. Do the divorce statistics count catholic “annulments” ?

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THANK YOU. I would not have seen this, at least not
for a long while otherwise.