In 2023, over 1.8 million Americans divorced. Additionally, a third of Americans who have ever been married have also experienced divorce.
The divorce rate in the United States has declined since it reached its peak in 1980, dropping just over 36% in the more than ...
The refined divorce rate peaked at 22.6 divorces per 1,000 married women around 1980, according to an analysis by the Pew ...
Women are more likely than men to initiate a “gray divorce,” research shows. Boomer women are generally more financially ...
Whatever the reason may be, divorce is growing less and less common. Between 2012 and 2022, the divorce rate declined 28%, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. However, there are 14 states bucking the ...
While divorce is on the decline overall, the number of divorces among people ages 50 and older has risen since the 1990s.
Opinion

How divorce redefined marriage

Divorce, once shrouded by shame and the tarnishing of one’s social reputation, has undergone a drastic makeover in the past four decades.
The rate of “gray divorce” — typically defined as divorce between those 50 and up — doubled between 1990 and 2010. Nowadays, ...
More advisors are finding themselves in a gray area. “Gray divorce,” that is.