Fact Sheet
- 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)
