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Hey Smarty Pants out there! You cannot be DIVORCED if you were NEVER MARRIED to begin with and those weenies do not commit so this is obviously #FAKENEWS. Hahahaha.

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They’re calculating it as a ratio of marriages, which factors out the decreasing rate of marriages. They aren’t just looking at base numbers.

As in, of the marriages that are happening, a much lower percentage of them are ending in divorce. And this is likely because people who are getting married are more committed to being married and are taking the time to select partners they can live with for a lifetime. Getting married “just because” or “it’s time” is a practice that’s quickly fading. And that’s ok.

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What percentage are getting married, though? If you don't get married or are married for less years (getting married older) there's going to be less divorce.

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Those that get married for the right reasons stay married.

What this doesn't tell us is the current millenial marriage rate. I would almost be willing to bet we arent getting married as much.

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they compared the number of divorces to the total number or married women. so a marriage with two women counts as two marriages and a marriage with two men counts as zero.

talk about flawed data.

Example.

Jane and sara are married and stay married.
Mike and Jeff get married but divorce.

Common math says they divorce rate is 50%.  But by only counting Jane and Sara (and counting them twice) the study concludes the divorce rate is zero percent.

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What are the right reasons to get married, followed by why does marriage even exist at all?

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The numbers are based on "Married People" that get divorced, not the number of divorces.

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Damn millenials, first they screw up the great American institutions of Applebees, Harley Davidson, and American cheese, and now divorce is becoming less frequent?

There oughta' be a law.  

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This is fucking stupid. The divorce rate is down because the marriage rate is down.....  People aren't getting suckered into getting married for a piece of paper. The gay marriage thing brought about civil union.

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The study controlled for fewer people getting married.

Very few of my peers have gotten divorced. Probably 75-80% have been married 10+ years.

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What percentage are getting married, though? If you don't get married or are married for less years (getting married older) there's going to be less divorce.

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There are not enough gay or lesbian marriages to affect the data. Stop watching TV.

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Lol at boomers trying to make it seem like they aren't the reason divorce is big business now.

I hadn't really thought about it. But most of my married friends are going the distance. Most of those that haven't would have been destroyed regardless of generation.

Lots of partners are sticking with their mates even through difficult times. It's really weird almost like they're taking some sort of oath seriously or something.

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Americans under the age of 45 have found a novel way to rebel against their elders: They’re staying married.

New data show younger couples are approaching relationships very differently from baby boomers, who married young, divorced, remarried and so on. Generation X and especially millennials are being pickier about who they marry, tying the knot at older ages when education, careers and finances are on track. The result is a U.S. divorce rate that dropped 18 percent from 2008 to 2016, according to an analysis by University of Maryland sociology professor Philip Cohen.

Demographers already knew the divorce rate was falling, even if the average American didn’t. Their question, however, was why? And what do current trends mean for the marital prospects of today’s newlyweds?

One theory is that divorce rates are falling largely because of other demographic changes—especially an aging population. Older people are less likely to get divorced, so maybe mellowing boomers were enough to explain the trend. Cohen’s analysis of U.S. Census Bureau survey data, however, suggests something more fundamental is at work. Even when he controls for factors such as age, the divorce rate over the same period still dropped 8 percent.

The marriage rate has also fallen over the last several decades. But Cohen calculates the divorce rate as a ratio of divorces to the total number of married women. So, the divorce rate’s decline isn’t a reflection of a decline in marriages. Rather, it’s evidence that marriages today have a greater chance of lasting than marriages did ten years ago.

“The change among young people is particularly striking,” Susan Brown, a sociology professor at Bowling Green State University, said of Cohen’s results. “The characteristics of young married couples today signal a sustained decline [in divorce rates] in the coming years.”

Young people get the credit for fewer divorces because boomers have continued to divorce at unusually high rates, all the way into their 60s and 70s. From 1990 to 2015, according to Bowling Green’s National Center for Family and Marriage Research, the divorce rate doubled for people aged 55 to 64, and even tripled for Americans 65 and older. Cohen’s results suggest this trend, called “grey divorce,” may have leveled out in the past decade, but boomers are still divorcing at much higher rates than previous generations did at similar ages.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-09-25/millennials-are-causing-the-u-s-divorce-rate-to-plummet?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&cmpid=socialflow-facebook-business&utm_campaign=socialflow-organic&utm_content=business

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As a millennial, everyone in my age group who HAS gotten married, is still married.

From what I see, my generation is getting married less often, but staying married when they do. YMMV

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Cheaper to keep her

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I'm a Gen X'er. I didn't marry until 35. I'm now 41 w/ 3 kids.

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Those that get married for the right reasons stay married.

What this doesn't tell us is the current millenial marriage rate. I would almost be willing to bet we arent getting married as much.

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As a millennial, everyone in my age group who HAS gotten married, is still married.

From what I see, my generation is getting married less often, but staying married when they do. YMMV

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That paper really is junk science. Millennials are at risk for divorce for the next 40 years and we won't know what their true divorce rate is going to be for at least another 20 years because many people don't get divorced until their 50s.

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That paper really is junk science. Millennials are at risk for divorce for the next 40 years and we won't know what their true divorce rate is going to be for at least another 20 years because many people don't get divorced until their 50s.

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Go look at the chart posted of marriages & divorces by year. The lines mimic each other pretty damn well, meaning the vast majority of divorces come shortly after marriage.

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That paper really is junk science. Millennials are at risk for divorce for the next 40 years and we won't know what their true divorce rate is going to be for at least another 20 years because many people don't get divorced until their 50s.

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Go look at the chart posted of marriages & divorces by year. The lines mimic each other pretty damn well, meaning the vast majority of divorces come shortly after marriage.

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As a millennial, everyone in my age group who HAS gotten married, is still married.

From what I see, my generation is getting married less often, but staying married when they do. YMMV

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Now, people are under water, or have very little equity.  The same little lady goes to the lawyer, he finds the couple has no or negative equity, and he says you gonna have to post a 10k retainer.  She goes home and figures the old man ain't so bad after all.

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This is an interesting line of thought.  I always suspected that not so well off folks are less likely to divorce since neither of them can maintain a decent standard of living on their own.  The woman probably realizes that even with child support she's going to be moving to a much crappier area.  Upper middle class and rich women probably know they can punch out with impunity.  

Moral of the story, if you're poor go ahead and tie the knot.  If you have decent prospects in life, don't...

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Why are boomers (not all boomers) so frequently upset by younger generations possibly doing better than them? Isn’t that the goal, these are your kids. Meanwhile you constantly see X and Millennials praising Gen Z as the saviors, putting faith in them to do better.

What is the difference?

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less crotch fruit, no 'need' to get married.