Reply #79: One of two marriages fail....Which means one out of two last for life

[happyslug]

First the statistics used is MARRIAGES. If I have 10 people, 9 marry once and one marries 11 times what is the divorce rate? One out of two marriages or 50%, Total marriages 20, divided by total people 10. Thus the divorce statistics is skewed by people who marry and divorce several times.

The rates I have read is 50% of FIRST marriages do NOT end in Divorce, and something like 75% of Second Marriages do NOT end in Divorce (The spouses get it right the second time). The remaining 10-15% (Remember the 75% is 75% of the 50% of already divorced people NOT 75% of ALL marriages) the population marries more than twice (and often much more than twice, 5-10 times are NOT unheard of). These people account for most of the divorces and do to their multiple divorces gets the total divorce rate of ALL marriages to the 50% rate.

Basically 50% is a statistical stat that should be ignored not debated.