For The People

* Shocking Divorce Statistics:
41% of first marriages end in divorce.
60% of second marriages end in divorce.
73% of third marriages end in divorce.
In America, there is one divorce every 13 seconds, four every minute. That's 6,646 divorces per day, and 46,523 divorces per week.
* The average length of a marriage that ends in divorce is 8 years.
* The average age for couples going through their first divorce is 30.
* 79.6% of custodial mothers receive a support award while only 29.6% of custodial fathers receive a support award.
* 46.9% of non-custodial mothers totally default on support, while only 26.9% of non-custodial fathers totally default on support.
* The Barna Research Group measured divorce statistics by religion. They found that 29% of Baptists are divorced (the highest for a US religious group), while only 21% of atheists/agnostics were divorced (the lowest).