Marriage and Divorce Facts
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Some Statistics regarding Marriage and Divorce Facts
- If the group of persons who marry partners after an affair is considered, more than 75 percent finally end in divorce
- Amongst those who get divorced during an affair, 80 percent regret their decision of divorce
- More than 50 percent are currently involved in an affair, and 25 percent of these mention that the affair is the reason for the divorce
- In case of marriages that have had a long duration, more than 90 percent of divorces comprise of infidelity at some point in the married life
- As compared to divorced men, divorced women have more problems in beginning new relationships
- After a divorce has been granted, 33 percent men and 50 percent women continue to be angry over this incident for 10 years
- Somebody gets divorced in the United States every 10 to 13 seconds
- About 60 percent of married women and 70 percent of married men are involved in affairs. This implies out of 3 marriages, 2 marriages involve affairs
General Marriage and Divorce Facts
- A majority of divorced men and divorced women remarry. However, the rate of failure of second marriages is more than first marriages. As compared to individuals in first marriages, remarried people experience a greater decline in marital quality
- 10 years after a divorce, one of the spouse in 66 percent of former couples experiences unhappiness, anxiety, depression and eventually mental instability
- In case of 25 percent of former couples, both spouses suffer from loneliness and depression
- 10 years after a divorce, both spouses of just 10 percent of the former couples, reconstruct fuller and happier lives
- Those people who are Catholics or members of conservative religious affiliations (like conservative sectarian faiths, conservative Protestants) report decreased average probability of marital infidelity when compared to peers that do not have any religious affiliation
- Those married couples who remained present for religious services exhibited less possibility of being unfaithful towards one another as compared to peers who had less frequent attendance for religious services
- If young adults from 18 to 30 are considered, women support cohabitation, premarital sex and the breadwinner-housewife model to a lesser degree than men. These women support marriage more than men do
- Young adults of highly educated mothers support cohabitation and premarital sex more than peers of less educated mothers
- If all individuals aged 31 are taken into account, these are of the opinion that the importance of religion and religious attendance were not significantly linked with their divorce views
- 66 percent adult children of divorced parents take a decision to not have children. These specifically cite divorce as the major reason for this decision
- Children of divorced parents say from experience that "The day my parents got divorced is the day my childhood ended"
- For girls in families with divorced parents, sex at an early age is very common
- In psychiatric hospitals, 80 percent of adolescents belong to broken homes
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