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Like the break-ups themselves, divorce rates are a complicated subject to study.
Questions abound: Should we really want divorce rates to go down? Is it true that about half of American marriages end in splitsville? And why are so many baby boomers ending things all of a sudden?
Then there are the questions of what predicts divorce in the first place — a complex line of research that Ball State associate professor Justin Lehmiller recently digested on his Sex & Psychology blog.
While the literature is muddy in a lot of places, a few themes have borne out in repeated studies.
Age matters
Couples that marry later tend to have relationships that last longer. The earlier the couple gets together, the greater the risk of later divorce. Interestingly, that holds if couples move in together while they’re younger (as in teen years), too. Read the entire article by Drake Baer on CNN.com