[Vermont Lt]

Actually he does. The rate of divorce certificates has dropped significantly in the past several years.

And, one of the divorce numbers that skews the whole thing is the likelihood that when you are divorced, you will get married and divorced again....

But the number that seems to nail it is that 50.2% of adults in this country are married, compared to 10.4%

Seems to be something to it.

Source: http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/STTable?_bm=y&-qr_name=ACS_2009_5YR_G00_S1201&-geo_id=01000US&-ds_name=ACS_2009_5YR_G00_&-_lang=en&-format=&-CONTEXT=st

[Riodacat]

Actually he does. The rate of divorce certificates has dropped significantly in the past several years.,

Actually, an increasing percentage of Americans are never getting married in the first place, so while the divorce rate may be coming down, the number of "successful marriages" is dropping way faster (as a percent of marriage age adults).
So I think the article is misleading in suggesting that there is an increasing percentage of successful marriages - when, in reality, there are increasing number of couples just live together without marriage or stay single.