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In 2022, single women without children had a median wealth of $87,200, while the typical single man had $82,100.
Led by Baby Boomers, divorce rates climb for America’s 50+ population Among U.S. adults ages 50 and older, the divorce rate has roughly doubled since the 1990s. short reads Apr 8, 2016
The divorce rate for adults ages 50 and older in remarriages is double the rate of those who have only been married once (16 vs. eight per 1,000 married persons, respectively). Among all adults 50 and older who divorced in 2015, 48% had been in their second or higher marriage.
Bruce A. Phillips of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in Los Angeles has compared the theoretical odds of Jewish intermarriage with actual rates of Jewish intermarriage and concluded that “American Jewish intermarriage is actually lower than it ought to be given the small size of the Jewish population and the privileged position Jews hold in American society.”
As the U.S. marriage rate has declined, divorce rates have increased among older Americans. In 2015, for every 1,000 married adults ages 50 and older, 10 had divorced – up from five in 1990. Among those ages 65 and older, the divorce rate roughly tripled since 1990. Love tops the list of Americans’ reasons to marry.
The availability of more accurate data about same-sex marriages allows for a comparison of adult men and women in same-sex and opposite-sex marriages across key demographic measures.
Among Republicans, there are wide ideological differences on views of divorce. While 53% of moderates and liberals in the party say unhappy couples tend to stay in bad marriages too long, 35% of conservatives say the same.
Conservative Baptist Association of America < 1%. Free Will Baptist < 1%.
Stevenson and Wolfers maintain that divorce rates have declined since that time, while Kennedy and Ruggles find that the divorce rate has continued its rise. ↩ Among women, 73% of marriages that began in the late 1980s lasted for at least 10 years, compared with 87% of those that began in the late 1950s. ↩
Although Asian and Hispanic newlyweds are most likely to be intermarried, overall increases in intermarriage have been driven in part by rising intermarriage rates among black and white newlyweds. The most dramatic increase has occurred among black newlyweds, whose intermarriage rate more than tripled from 5% in 1980 to 18% in 2015.