Sentences with phrase «first marriages»

Census Bureau data suggests that second, third and subsequent marriages fail at greater rates than first marriages.

Avoiding Divorce: About 50 % of first marriages end in divorce, and over 60 % of second marriages.

Remarriages bring challenges that first marriages do not, like often blending the lives not just of the spouses, but their children as well.

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.

Their marital instability earlier in life is contributing to the rising divorce rate among adults ages 50 and older today, since remarriages tend to be less stable than first marriages.

For first marriages, for example, marriages are less likely to break up, and more likely to succeed, if the wife grew up in a two - parent home, is Asian, was 20 years of age or over at marriage, did not have any children when she got married, is college - educated, has more income, or has any religious affiliation.»

In 2007, there were 231,000 marriages in England and Wales, the lowest total in 112 years, of which 143,000 were first marriages.

Of her close friends, all evergreens, only a few first marriages survived.

It is a sad reality in the United States that divorce rates are rather high, with approximately 45 to 50 percent of the first marriages breaking up.

Their adult children (from their first marriages) and college - aged grandchildren live out of state over 1000 miles away from the couple.

After all, about half of first marriages end in divorce, and the results can be messy for all those involved.

In America fifty percent of first marriages end in divorce, sixty percent of second marriages go south, and seventy percent of third marriages go kaput.

More than 65 percent of first marriages today are between couples already living together.

Recently dating sites have started to track this demographic of later life first marriages.

Second marriages, on average, are slightly more likely to break up than first marriages, but the difference is quite modest.

As for that checklist... the divorce rate for first marriages is 50 % and those individuals selected what they thought was the ideal mate based on that «checklist».

«Remarriages are more likely to end in divorce than are first marriages, and the risk of divorce is greatest during the earliest years of marriage.»

Also the United States boasts one of the highest divorce rates in the world, according to Popenoe & Whitehead (2010), who report that 40 % of first marriages, 60 % of second marriages and 73 % of third marriages result in divorce.

First marriages later in life.

With 4 in 10 first marriages now ending in divorce, people across the country have started looking for a different approach to meeting new people.

Conventional wisdom tells us that we can learn from our mistakes, so why is the divorce rate as high (if not higher) for second marriages as it is for first marriages?

About 35 % of first marriages end within 10 years, while about 40 % of second marriages end within that period, according to CDC data.

We have only to look at the divorce rate — 41 % for first marriages, 60 % for second and 73 % for third — to know that many couples have systems that don't work.

We both had grown children from our first marriages, but we wanted to have a family together.

These were the 1970s, after all, when millions of marriages — including both Guttentag's and Secord's first marriages — had collapsed in the chaos of the free love movement spawned during the previous decade.

One in two marriages, first marriages, end in divorce in our country; two out of three second marriages and three out of four third.

Analysts cite such factors as the rising median age for first marriages, an increased acceptance of cohabitation, and difficult economic times for the increase in singles.

Toss in the perennial divorce statistics — 41 percent of first marriages and 60 percent of second marriages end in divorce, according to recent census figures — and marriage looks downright embattled.

Marriages do not begin with the anticipation of divorce however, it is becoming more common: 50 percent of first marriages, 67 percent of second and 74 percent of third marriages end in divorce.

About half of first marriages in the U.S. are likely to survive at least 20 years, according to government estimates.

There are reasons why the failure rate of second marriages is significantly greater than that of first marriages.

Perhaps not; while about 15 percent to 45 percent of first marriages end in divorce about 60 percent to 80 percent of second marriages end in divorce (although numbers vary on how many of those second marriages are to the former spouse or a different one with assorted children from different parents all trying to live happily a la «The Brady Bunch» under one roof).

Although men still skew much younger when looking for love online, most of us tend to marry someone close to our own age in first marriages — according to the Pew study, 80 percent of men and 78 percent of women marry someone within five years of their age.

«Results — One fifth of first marriages end within 5 years and one third end within 10 years.

Partly because of the growing acceptance, individualization and even romanticization of a «divorce culture» in America, approximately half of all first marriages — and at least as many second ones — do not endure.

The proportion of first marriages that were preceded by cohabitation increased from 8 percent in the late 1960s to 49 percent by the mid -»80s.

The probability of divorce for first marriages is between forty and fifty percent.

More than half of all first marriages in the United States are now preceded by a period of cohabitation.

With all the good will in the world, blended families often do not function smoothly — which is one of the main reasons why second marriages end in divorce more frequently than first marriages.

Our point is that on the whole the nuclear mother - father team in intact first marriages does a better job of raising children than do single parents, stepparents or unmarried couples.

If the church is interested in helping society raise strong, healthy and self - directed children, the church must help produce as many intact first marriages as possible.

Research shows that none of the alternatives to the intact nuclear family (first marriages) performs well the task of rearing children.

If the church is interested in helping society raise strong, healthy and self - directed children, it must help produce as many intact first marriages as possible.

Research shows that none of the alternatives to the intact nuclear family (first marriages) performs this task as well.

Everyone spends more time than ever before in the workplace and, with most first marriages taking place in people's mid - to late 20s, falling in love at the office would seem inevitable, rather than a corporate misdemeanor.

But once the fairy tale has devolved into the routine of everyday life, the fact remains that 50 percent to 55 percent of all first marriages end in divorce; the percentage is even higher for second marriages.

Many jurisdictions prevent a spouse from being disinherited, for example, so a court might void provisions in a will that leaves everything to your kids from a first marriage, said Joslin Davis, president of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers.

What's her first college experience, her first job, her first interview, her first break - up, her first marriage, her first second marriage.

His first marriage lasted about 15 years; the second, nine years; and the third, 13 years.

They share two daughters from Elissa's first marriage, Lauren and Alisson.