As discussed in the article, that's a horrible number. If you dig into it, most of the divorces are people 50-59 who married when the marriage rate was much hi

As discussed in the article, that's a horrible number. If you dig into it, most of the divorces are people 50-59 who married when the marriage rate was much higher. The marriage rate has gone down over time because more people are choosing not to marry. You can think of it as either a depressed marriage rate or an inflated divorce rate, but large number of people getting divorced who were married 30 years ago is unrelated to the number of people being married today.