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<\/a>A new study has identified a shift in divorce<\/a> trends, saying that people have the best chances of staying married if they wed between the ages of 25 and 32. The risk of divorce increases by five percent each year past the age of 32.<\/p>\nUniversity of Utah sociologist Nicholas Wolfinger examined data from the National Survey of Family Growth from 2006 to 2010 and found that the odds of divorce decline steadily from the teenage years into the late twenties. However, couples who delay marriage until they are in their late thirties or early forties are more likely to divorce than those who wed in their late twenties, which are viewed as the years of peak marital stability.<\/p>\n
Wolfinger theorized that people \u201cdelay marriage, often because they can\u2019t find anyone willing to marry them\u2026Perhaps people who marry later face a pool of potential spouses that has been winnowed down to exclude the (more…)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A new study has identified a shift in divorce trends, saying that people have the best chances of staying married if they wed between the ages of 25 and 32. The risk of divorce increases by five percent each year…<\/span><\/p>\n