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https://www.bloomberg.com/news/artic...ate-to-plummet


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.

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.





Those older people getting married and divorced again....especially the ones that have adult offspring.....no need to get married. All that does is screw up inheritance matters for the adult offspring. If you have some decent money saved up, remarried, get hit by a bus your new spouse will inherit most everything and your offspring nada. And I know most of these people are not doing wills or living wills nearly as much as they should.