With all the talk of declining morals with each generation, there is one thing millennials seem to do better than their elders. When they get married, they stay married. There’s been a dramatic drop in divorce rates for the country’s youngest adults since 2008 and an 18 percent drop in the overall divorce rate from 2008 to 2016. The decrease in the divorce rate is largely attributable to Millennials and—to a lesser degree—Generation Xers either staying married or cohabitating outside marriage.
University of Maryland professor and sociologist Philip Cohen, who conducted the groundbreaking study and paper, The Coming Divorce Decline, writes “The overall drop is driven entirely by younger women.” The prevalence for divorce for people under 45 appears to level off, but continues to rise for people over age 45. Cohen believes the decrease means the divorce rate will continue to trend downward in coming years. The average age for couples going through their first divorce has increased to age 30.
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