What Are The Real Divorce Statistics

You’re getting married to your perfect partner — your own Prince Charming or Snow White — and you’re over the moon. But everywhere you look, you see marriages falling apart, and so many ending in divorce. And you’re terrified that could happen to you too. Will your perfect marriage become just another sad divorce statistic?

Lots of people (who make money online, on radio, and in magazines by spreading sensational opinions) toss around US divorce statistics like 2 in 3 or 1 in 2. And most of those fear mongers are either scam artists or clueless. OK, I’ll give them the benefit of the doubt, and say they’re not scam artists. So, what are the real divorce rates? The real divorce statistics?

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Sensational Divorce Rates

There are two scientific ways to calculate divorce statistics. One way is to calculate the proportion of the population that gets married each year (7.5 per 1,000), and the proportion of the population that gets divorced (3.7 per 1,000). If we divide the divorce proportion by the marriage proportion (3.7 / 7.5), we get 50% — 1 in 2. That’s how some people (fear mongers) calculate a divorce rate of 50%.

Is 50% the real divorce statistic? Numbers don’t lie, right? Well, as Mark Twain mentioned many times, there are “lies, damned lies, and statistics.” In other words, you can use (faulty) statistics to prove anything.

Real Divorce Rates

Social scientists calculate divorce statistics another way. And they say the US divorce statistic is way less than 50%. They say 50% is way too high because the people who are divorcing at any given time are not the people who are marrying. Social scientists say the best way to calculate divorce rates is to divide the number of people who have ever married by the the number of people who have ever divorced. When we do that, the divorce statistic is closer to 30% — less than 1 in 3.

Perspective

Even 1 in 3 sounds scary, but don’t freak out. A divorce statistic is just an average. And just because something happens on average, doesn’t mean it’ll happen to you. After all, you’re not average, right? No, you’re way better than that.

How To Avoid Divorce

Many people use divorce as an easy out. If it all gets too tough, they’ll use divorce to escape. If you want to keep your marriage strong and healthy and fun, don’t ever think that way. Don’t give yourself an easy out. Make a commitment to your marriage… and promise yourself that YOU WILL MAKE IT WORK… and you won’t accept any other option. That’s how winners think. And how you should think to save your marriage.

Now go and do something (talk’s cheap–DO SOMETHING) to show your spouse how much you appreciate and respect him/her. And do that every day. That’s the best way to make sure your perfect marriage doesn’t become another divorce statistic.