New Study Shows Big Drop in Divorce

Second Positive Trend: Divorce Decline Not Linked to Marriage Rates

The decline Cohen found is not associated or caused by a drop in the marriage rate. There seems to be a constant thread of feedback online whenever a study like this comes along; the divorce rate drop is only due to less people marrying today. In this study, Cohen analyzed married women, then women who divorced in the previous year. By doing this, he could specifically look at the divorce rate for married women in the last decade. In fact, marriages today stand a better chance of making it than even a decade ago. As Shaunti and I pointed out in our book, research shows by age 46, ninety percent of women will walk down the aisle. For all the online discussion and attention on cohabitation and lower marriage rates, many couples still eventually marry.