Originally Posted by
rickair7777
Also I'm sure the divorce rate is skewed by repeat offenders...successful marriages only get counted once, but failures often continue to put numbers up on the board.
Very true. The estimate of first time marriages ending in divorce is around 30% and the overall rate closer to 40%, obviously the repeat offenders are skewing the data. The interesting info from the article is how dramatically the rate drops with age and education to below 20%.