"Will the Increase of Divorce Ever Stop?"

Most divorced couples feel the need to go their separates ways for reasons such as, sexual needs, unhappiness, or they simply do not mesh together anymore. A decision such as divorce needs to be a mutal feeling. It's not only a decision that will affect the couples lives, but their children as well. You never know how they will take it. They'll either take it as a feeling of guilt or as a sense of relief for themselves and their parents. Now that I am a part of every other divorced family, I feel it's important to share these statistics with individuals who also may be going through this rough time.

According to DivorceRate, the current divorce rate in American is 50%. For those who divorce in America under the age of 20, 27.6% are women and 11.7% are men; 20-24 years old, 36.6% are women and 38.8% are men; 25-29 years old, 16.4% are women and 22.3% are men; 30-34 years old, 8.5% are women and 11.6% are men; 35-39 years old, 5.1% are women and 6.5% are men. As you can see, as the population grows older the divorce percentage goes down. Most divorced couples, as shown, are under the age of 20 simply because they do not know what they want yet or they rushed into things too fast.

The divorce rate in America can vary in first, second, or third marriages. Jennifer Baker of the Forest Institute of Professional Psychology in Springfield, Missouri said, "50% of first marriages, 67% of second, and 74% of third marriages end in divorce." Who knew I'd ever be so interested in statistics such as this. Hopefully these numbers will flatten out as the years go on. There needs to be more happy memories and less regret.

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