Divorce Statistics – Baby Boomers Lead the Way
- 2,000,000 people get divorced in the United States every year
- 45-50% or first marriages end in divorce
- 60-67% of second marriages end in divorce
- 70-73% of third marriages end in divorce
- 40% of couples with children will divorce
- 66% of couples without children will divorce
- The Baby Boomer generation divorces at a much higher rate than previous generations and at a much later age creating “Gray Divorce”.
- The median age at which Americans get married is now 29 years old for men and 27 for women which is the historic high. Thanks to watching their parents divorce?
- Net Worth has an inverse correlation with divorce rates. As wealth increases, divorce rates decrease. Millionaires have roughly 1/3 the divorce rate.
- Larry King divorced the same woman twice
