For the new generation of empty-nesters, divorce is increasingly common. Among people ages 50 and older, the divorce rate has doubled over the past two decades, according to new research by sociologists Susan Brown and I-Fen Lin of Bowling Green State University, whose paper, \u201cThe Gray Divorce Revolution,\u201d Prof. Brown will present at Ohio State University this April. The paper draws on data from the 1990 U.S. Vital Statistics Report and the 2009 American Community Survey, administered by the U.S. Census Bureau, which asked all respondents if they\u2019d divorced in the past 12 months.<\/p>\n
Though overall national divorce rates have declined since spiking in the 1980s, \u201cgray divorce\u201d has risen to its highest level on record, according to Prof. Brown. In 1990, only one in 10 people who got divorced was 50 or older; by 2009, the number was roughly one in four. More than 600,000 people ages 50 and older got divorced in 2009.<\/p>\n
What\u2019s more, a 2004 national survey conducted by AARP found that women are the ones initiating most of these breakups. Among divorces by people ages 40-69, women reported seeking the split 66% of the time. And cheating doesn\u2019t appear to be the driving force in gray divorce. The same AARP survey found that 27% of divorc\u00e9s cited infidelity as one of their top three reasons for seeking a divorce\u2014which is not out of line with estimates of infidelity as a factor in divorce in the general population.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
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