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Among whites and Hispanics, by contrast, there are no gender differences in intermarriage rates. Rates of intermarriages among newlyweds in the U.S. more than doubled between 1980 (6.7%) and 2008 (14.6%). However, different groups experienced different trends. Rates more than doubled among whites and nearly tripled among blacks.
Although the rate had declined 7% in the last seven years, divorced couples still showed a glaringly higher mortality rate of 1,363 per 100,000 people compared to 779 per 100,000 for married couples.
A 2011 study for states with available data initially reported that the dissolution rates for same-sex couples were slightly lower on average (on average, 1.1% of all same-sex couples were said to divorce each year, ranging from 0% to 1.8% in various jurisdictions) than divorce rates of different-sex couples (2% of whom divorce annually). [25]
Lower-income couples are more likely to get a divorce than higher-income couples. By the seventh wedding anniversary, the divorce rate among highly educated people who married in the early 2000s is 11%, while that for couples without college degrees is 17%. [19]
In 2022, the divorce rate was 2.4 per 1,000 people. Although that isn’t the lowest it has ever been – in 2021, it was 2.3 – it continues a downward trend, according to the data.
From 1990 to 2010, the rate of “gray divorce” (among people who were 50 and older) doubled, but has since stagnated, and even declined slightly, according to the National Center for Family ...
When Moynihan wrote in 1965 on the coming destruction of the black family, the out-of-wedlock birth rate was 25% among black people. [7] In 1991, 68% of black children were born outside of marriage (where 'marriage' is defined with a government-issued license). [8]
Over the past decade, both marriage and divorce rates nationally declined — but figures varied widely between states. Read The Marriage and Divorce Rate in Every State from Money Talks News.