A Closer Look At Divorce Rates

Inside Deceiving Census Data

Divorce rates are dipping slightly, but experts say that may not mean marriages are much more likely to succeed than they have in the past.

According to the most recent U.S. census, about 75 percent of the couples married since 1990 reported reaching their 10th anniversary, up about 3 percent above their counterparts who married in the decade before.

However, the same data revealed that about half of first marriages are destined to end in divorce.

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