Do 50% of marriages end in divorce? Data says not so fast

(NewsNation) — The widely circulated claim that “50% of marriages end in divorce” is being put to rest, as researchers continue to document a decline in divorce rates in the U.S.

According to the National Center for Family and Marriage Research, the overall U.S. divorce rate has been on the decline since reaching its peak in 1980. To put that into perspective, the center reports, for example, that the rate of women experiencing a divorce in 1980 was 22.6 per 1,000 married women. As of 2022, that number has dropped to 14.6.

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“It’s like crime, people tend to assume it’s always going up or they assume it’s a part of modern life and it’s always worse than it’s ever been,” Philip Cohen, a professor of sociology at the University