15 QUICK DIVORCE FACTS

1 - January is considered “divorce month” but we also see a spike of divorces in August.

2 -  Worldwide, grounds for divorce and common reasons for divorce share similarities. According to records from the United Nations and other world organizations, the most common reasons for divorce are:

• Infidelity (18%)
• Drug and/or alcohol abuse (9%)
• Physical and/or mental abuse (6%)
• By 44% , the most common reason for divorce, is incompatibility, or simply growing apart. 

3 - If both you and your partner have had previous marriages, you are 90% more likely to get divorced.

4 - The United States has the 6th highest divorce rate in the world. 

5 - Some researchers estimate that 41% of all first marriages end in divorce.

6 - 60% percent of second marriages end in divorce.

7 - 73% of all third marriages end in divorce.

8 - According to CDC studies, the average first marriage lasts 8 years. 

9 - There are 5,975,768 divorces over the course of an average first marriage that ends in divorce (8 years).

10 - 48% of those who marry before the age of 18 are likely to divorce within 10 years, compared to 25 percent of those who marry after the age of 25.

11 - Those who wait to marry until they are over 25 years old are 24 percent less likely to get divorced.

12 - If your parents are happily married, your risk of divorce decreases by 14 percent.

13 - According to one study, if you met your spouse in high school, college, or grad school, you are 41 percent less likely to get divorced.

14 - Studies at the University of California and Brown University reported that when a married person works with someone who is in the process of divorcing, it increases the married person chances of divorce by 75%.

15 - An article in the New York Times stated that – of couples who seek marriage counseling – 38% end up divorced just two years later.

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