Divorce Rate in America: Updated March 2024

https://divorce.com/blog/divorce-statistics/ ^ | March 2024 Update | Divorce.com Staff

[maddog55]

Do it right the first time and work at it. I got married 4 months out of highschool, 6 months after our first date. Still married 51 years later with 2 kids and 4 grandkids.

Wasn’t always fun, harder than hell at times especially during deployments but we made it and couldn’t be happier or better now.

[Ge0ffrey]

What’s the shackup rate in MA and IL?

[lurk]

Entertainers, practicing serial divorce, skew the numbers.

[Dutch Boy]

There are people want to get married and those that want to be married.

[DoodleBob]

The printed divorce rate of 48%, if you click thru, is the failure rate of first marriages. I didn’t validate that calculation.

The annual divorce rate is often calculated wrong, as the number of divorces over the number of weddings in a year.

For example, let’s say we wanted to know the rate at which it rains in a year. Assume we had 100 rainy days in 2022. That means we had 265 non-rainy days in 2022.

The rate of rainy days isn’t 100/265 (37.7%);.

The rate of rainy days is 100/365 (27.2%).

For YEARS, people have reported the “annual divorce rate” as the equivalent of rainy days over non-rainy days. That’s nonsense. The number of annual divorces divided by the number of annual marriages is simply a bogus number.

You must instead take the number of divorces for a given year and divide that by the TOTAL number of married couples in that year - NOT the sum of weddings in a year.

The data get muddy because some states don’t report divorce data at the aggregate level.

However, per https://www.bgsu.edu/ncfmr/resources/data/family-profiles/loo-divorce-rate-US-geographic-variation-2022-fp-23-24.html, for 2022, the number of women who reported they divorced in the past year increased from 948,862 in 2021 (Marino, 2022) to 989,518 in 2022.

Per this article, in 2022, 67.85 million men and 68.45 million women were married in the United States.

Therefore, the divorce rate in 2022 was 0.989518/68.45 or 1.51%.

Tim foil hat: I believe the bogus appx 50% divorce rate is promoted to encourage divorce…”look - everyone’s doing it.”

Why? Because as much as people rant about libs, or trannys, or Soros or the WEF, the BIGGEST and most destructive force against society is the disintegration of the family.

Hundreds of thousands of self-indulgent men and women throw their children into the wood chipper of life when they get a divorce, so they can get a hotter version or a richer spouse or reach personal fulfillment or other idiotic reasons.

And please don’t tell me “but what about abuse?” That’s the equivalent of pro-abortion people hoisting rape and incest. If your spouse is battering you, please get help and get out of the home, and take the kids with you. Separation is vital.

Divorce is the devil’s solution. It breaks a compact made before God. And it destroys children.

You want to fix America? Start with fixing marriage and the kool aid of divorce.

[thefactor]

I found that interesting as well. But to me that indicates fewer people get married in MA and IL, most likely, so when they do get married it's for the right reasons.

Marriage ain't political, though. I know plenty of Republicans who are terrible spouses and I know crazy libs who are fantastic spouses. I'm sure we all do.

[DoodleBob]

Yea, I’m on a roll.

The data below are mixed, because the denominators include married and non-married people, including children. That said, let’s forge ahead.

Marriage isn’t considered an irreversible bond in our culture anymore. The Commandments are no longer binding. Going to hell for sex outside of marriage is a figment of the imagination. God will forgive you; actually God is a woman…

The progressive era and the advent of socialism brought on by the Depression got that started. Marriage became disposable…it is reversible, it can be undone. It’s caustic to women, and quoth Marx and Engels, “(t)he bourgeois sees his wife as a mere instrument of production. He hears that the instruments of production are to be exploited in common, and, naturally, can come to no other conclusion than that the lot of being common to all will likewise fall to the women.”

Don’t worry son or daughter….you don’t need to do much discernment because you can always lawyer up like mom and dad did. Oh, and friends and family will happily applaud like a circus seal if you dump your spouse. There are Facebook groups and all kinds of social outlets geared toward starting life anew. Indeed, lots of your friends and family are also in a state of mortal sin-it’s not like they’ll tell you to save your soul and work out the problem.

Then we have “research” showing that the kids turn out ok because they don’t see Mom and Dad fighting, that single parenthood can be good for the kids self-esteem, and other nonsense.

Sure…and the shots are safe and effective. Marx and Engels are smiling in hell.

I get that some spouses are tough, and there is mental illness and substance abuse. Guess what? That all existed prior to 1934. Divorce was shameful. It was a one-way ticket to hell. People worked out their problems. As I wrote before, the same mindset that says “I’m against divorce except for cases of ____” is the same demonic mindset that says “I’m against abortion except in cases of _____.”

We need to get people into a pre-1934 marriage mindset. From there, children can grow up in a home that isn’t lead by hypocrites, where religion is seen as VITAL as opposed to a buffet where they can pick and choose morality.

[9YearLurker]

Who’s to judge those who identify as other than either married or unmarried?

[9YearLurker]

Wanna guess the percentages of chronically straying husbands for each?

[Pearls Before Swine]

USA divorce rate in 2021 was 48%? Why does anyone bother to get married anymore?

Because it's very nice when it works. My first didn't last, my second is going on 46 years, so I guess I'm right in there with those stats.

[BitWielder1]

Homeowner 67.4% = Financial incentive to divorce. HALF!
Renters not so much.

[heterosupremacist]

This proves unequivocally that marriage is the leading cause of divorce...

[aimhigh]

Homeowner: 67.4%
Renter: 32.6% “

I expect the % of renters would be higher if most renters got married instead of just living together.

[dadfly]

thumbs up brother Bob.

for all your reasons and more, the devil loves divorce and hates the family.

and look at what happens after. often people (especially professing Christians) are eaten up with guilt over the failure. guilt is one of the devil’s greatest weapons: sin leads to guilt and guilt keeps you in bondage to the devil.

[Varsity Flight]

+ alimony,🍨child support + years 🚫

[equaviator]

Absolutely.

There are people who want to get married and there are people who want to be married. Weddings make the couple look good until the honeymoon is over. Wedding albums with photographs document only the first of the possibly tens of thousands of days to follow. It takes a lot of quality time and sincere effort to develop an indelible image with an endearing quality to it. If they place an emphasis on overall quality, the rest should take care of itself. If they're oblivious to quality then maybe couples should just cohabitate for however long they can stand it.

[KC_Conspirator]

69 percent are initiated by women. Then they get cash and prizes in the family court system.

[Varsity Flight]

Team Wo-Man. 💰💰💰

(but they’re not)