Julie BaumgardnerAt the 2019 National Association for Relationship and Marriage Education Summit in Nashville, Dr. Scott Stanley gave an update on the latest marriage and cohabitation research and what people really think about marriage today.
You may have very specific ideas about the significance of marriage, but you may be surprised to learn what others believe.
While you have probably heard that married couples have a 50% chance of eventually divorcing, this statement pertains specifically to Baby Boomers – the most divorcing generation ever in U.S. history. Those marrying today have around a 38% lifetime risk for divorce.
Before you get too excited about the divorce rate decrease, it would be important to know that the marriage rate has also decreased.
According to Stanley, demographers and sociologists wonder whether people are marrying later or if a historic number of younger people just won’t marry. Some think marriage will bounce back, while others think people in the younger generation are afraid of or disinterested in marriage.