Even though all the statistics are stacked against second marriages — even more
fail than first marriages — with lots of hard work and love, success is possible.
Not exact matches
He was the
first Republican in office ever to say so openly, and with the force of freshman Gov. Andrew Cuomo and his aides, the
marriage bill was closer to reality
than it had been since a
failed vote in 2009.
Census Bureau data suggests that second, third and subsequent
marriages fail at greater rates
than first marriages.
Second
marriages — and blended families —
fail more frequently
than first marriages because of the problems associated with the blending of families.
More
than half of all
first marriages end in divorce; 60 percent of second
marriages fail.
Other studies show that more
than half of
marriages that
fail do so in the
first seven years.