> There’s a statistic that the average length of the American marriage is 8 years. That statistic is not in the census report to which you linked. Instead, the

> There’s a statistic that the average length of the American marriage is 8 years. That statistic is not in the census report to which you linked. Instead, the report says on its first page that “First marriages that end in divorce last about 8 years, on averaged.“