Divorce Rates
Based solely on the responses of my readers, I thought it would be a good idea to base my next blog on our own country’s divorce statistics, how the vary within our own country, and also how they measure up against the rest of the world. Is divorce really even as common as we tend to believe it is in our own country? What states are more prone than others to have fail marriages and which one are not? What is the average length of a marriage before a divorce within our country? Is it common for people located half way across the world to know of as many married couples as you and I know that are going through a divorce at this point of time or the amount of people who have been through at least one divorce already? If they don’t know as many, is it even close? It is even comparable to what we believe we are accustom to in the United States? These are just a few of the questions that come to my mind when I start to think about our own countries divorce statistics and how they might compare to the rest of the world.
How Many American Marriages End in Divorce?
Most of us would simply reply to this question, “one in two” or every other married couple will end in a divorce, if you believe just like I like I do the endlessly statistics repeated by, but not limited too, the new media, several publications, and potential candidate’s campaign speeches. But also we can come with this assumption simply what we witness with our own eyes. If we do the math , most of us would find this figure by simply calculating the annual marriage rate per 1,000 people compared to the annual divorce rate per 1,000 people. However, researches believe that our method of calculating divorce rates are flawed. They claim that this is very misleading because the same couple that are getting married in a given year are not necessarily the same ones who are divorcing within that same year that they are married. Researchers believed that the statistics of “one in two”, in useless in understanding divorce rate in the United States and that it has never reached one in every two marriages. New research actually suggests that with the rates declining, it probably never will.
Recent research showing the latest data available reported that actually only 4.95 per 1,000 people marriages in the United States were ending in Divorce. However, although this number is fairly new, again we need to keep in mind how we come up with this figure and that within a given year, the couple who are getting married are not the same ones who are engaging in a divorce within that year.
Which states are more prone to fail marriages and which ones are not?
Neveda is definitely the number state were most marriages fail. How are you even surprised though because at the same time it is the same state were most people get drunk and become wed overnight, ask Britney? The next couple highest states are Arkansas, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Wyoming. These are the top five states with the highest failed marriages within a state.
The top five with the lowest are Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Jersey, Rhode Island, and New York.
How do we even compare with the rest of the world?
Well compare when compared to the rest of the world, is it a not surprise to you that we are ranked number one in the world for having the highest divorce rate per every 1,000 person within a country. In guess who the follow us with having the next highest divorce rate? Puerto Rico, a territory of the United States, well no surprise there huh? Their divorce rate is at 4.47 per 1,0000 people compare to our 4.95 percent per every 1,000 people. The next three countries to make the top five are the Russia ( 3.36 per every 1,000), United Kindgom ( 3.08 per every 1,000), and Denmark ( 2.81 per every 1,000).
The top five with the lowest divorce rates are Sri Lanka ( 0.15 per every 1,000), Brazil ( 0.26 per every 1,000), Italy (.27, Mexico (.33 per every 1,000) and Mongolia (.37 per every 1,000).
References:
http://www.nationmaster.com
http://www.infoplease.com
http://www.divorcereform.org/rates
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I am not surprised about the statistics. Only I think New York and New Jersey are flawed. People who get married in one state, then move to another state, and get divocred in that same state. That would flaw the results. Many people move away from New York and New Jersey. The reason is to start a new life or simply for job purposes. For example, take my parents. They were married in New York and moved to Virginia. They got divorced in Virginia. So think about how many people move. I understand about divorce because I am child in a divorce marriage and so are my cousins. In my family alone, there are 3 failed marriages. Thats a lot for one family. I like your topic. One thing, you mentioned Russia two times in the most failed marriages of the world. I am confused about which rate is Russia's. So fill me in on that statistic. Keep up the great work. -S
You know, it seems that divorce has really become a trend in the United States. Apparently, Divorce rates seem higher in America than they do in any other country. According to Mariah Wojdacz, there were 957,000 divorces in the year 2000 alone. I mean, is that crazy or what?! I was shocked when I read that in just one year, there were these many divorce rates in the United States alone. Wow! The good news is, I read that divorce rates are actually starting to decrease! Yay!I also read that it is most likely that people who marry at an earlier age are the ones who tend to get divorce and are faced with a failed marriage. And actually, if you think about it, it's quite true. Teenagers make quick decisions about getting married and they don't even think twice about it. Then, once they are faced with a minor/major problem, the only way out of the problem is one thing: divorce. To help you out, I found a chart that I thought was pretty informative on the same website that I found all these other facts that I talk about. It's actually a pretty good website and it should be very useful to you since it talks about the top cities with highest/lowest divorce rates. Just for everyone's information, guess where the highest divorce rate is?! Reno!! With a percentage of 14.2...I wonder why!!
References:
http://www.legalzoom.com/articles/article_content/article13573.html
Great information here. This post really puts things in perspective. Now make sure to apply your references to the text itself in the form of an in-text citation. It's always important to state right away where you got the data, in addition to adding it as a reference at the bottom of the page.
This information is amazing because I used to work in a legal office on base where we dealt w/ alot of divorces and separations. It is great that you put this stuff in perspective. I always thought it was going to be North Carolina with the highest divorce rate (hence the place that i worked in the legal office). But after reading your blog I was appauled. I must go now, got to find another blog. This is great. Just make sure you correct your spelling in your content. Now really im gone.
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I thought only western people have divorced easily. It was hard for Korean and other Asian to divorce few years ago.
Howevr, some of my friends in Korea divorced in last two years. Nowadays young couples divorce easily in Korea. Divorce rates is also getting higher in Korea.
My parents' generation did not divorce even though their pouse were cheating each other. It sounds like crazy. But they kept their marriage because their kids.
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