>>What exactly is meant by "divorce rate"? Is 22% some annual rate? I have heard repeatedly that the percentage of marriages which end in divorce is around 50%.
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>The 50% number is BS. It's a misinterpretation of the fact that there are half as many divorces each year as marriages. But that doesn't reflect all the people already married.
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I thought it was a straight calculation of what percentage of marriages end in divorce (within 10 years, I now learn) -- this couple married and later divorced, this couple married and didn't divorce. But maybe I have been wrong about it all this time.