According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the divorce rate is over 50% in this country.
Seventy-five percent of the divorce population remarry. (U.S. Census Bureau)
According to the Janus Report, one out of three marriages is a second marriage for both parties.
Eighty-eight percent of husbands married to their second wives report this marriage as happier than the first. (American Demographics)
Masters and Johnson report that five out of six men and three out of four women remarry after they are divorced.
The National Center for Health Statistics reports that over forty percent of all marriages involves second wives.
Four out of ten marriages involve a second marriage. (National Center for Health Statistics.)
The median age at remarriage after divorce for women is 34.2 years, and for men, 37.4 years. (Center for Disease Control and Prevention, 1990)
About 65% of remarriage involve children from the prior marriage and, thus, form stepfamilies. (U.S. Census Bureau, 1990)
Of the children under eighteen years of age living in two-parent households: 10.3% lived with a biological mother and stepfather, .6% lived with a biological father and a stepmother, and 9.8% lived in a combined stepmother-stepfather household. (U.S. Census Bureau, 1990)
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