Washington post has an interesting article on 144 years of marriage and divorce. Now obviously, the more people that get married, the more divorces there will be statistically. So during rough economic times, there tends to less marriages and less divorces. I find it interesting that the real rise in the divorce rate (rising faster then the rate of marriage) began in the 60s and peaked in the 1980. Maybe feminist movement?
Credit goes to Randy Olsen that compiled the data from the CDC.
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