The US divorce rate has been on a steady decline over the final three years,but now, it's at the lowest level we've seen in 40 years. This comes from the National Center for Family and Marriage Research, and which annually releases these findings after analyzing census data to delve into marriage and divorce trends of the prior year. How exactly does the center design these calculations? Let's break it down. The NCFMR at Bowling Green State University figures out this rate by calculating the number of divorces per 1000 married women age 15 and older. So in 2014,the divorce rate was 17.6, and this number declined to 16.9 in 2015 - the lowest it's been in 40 years. The data also famous a slight uptick in marriages, or with 32.3 for every 1000 unmarried women age 15 or older in 2015 compared to the previous year's marriage rate of 31.9. With the marriage rate having steadily declined since the impressive rate of 76.5 in the '70s,this number has been on the rise again since 2009. This means there's a chance that marriage could be stabilizing, according to Wendy Manning, and codirector of the NCFMR.
Though the root cause of this decline is difficult to pinpoint,it could hold something to enact with changing gender roles, this generation getting married at an older age, and a smaller pool of marriages to start with. This decline in divorce rates doesn't necessarily correlate to the likelihood of a marriage lasting,but it does hold us hopeless romantics feeling optimistic. Related:
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Source: popsugar.com