In October 2013 the Pew Center released a report that found Americans are most comfortable looking for prospective partners online. 59 percent of those surveyed agreed that online dating was a good way to meet people. A major development in this new survey (the last one was in 2005) concerned the smartphone—which didn’t exist in […]
Fifty years ago only 2.8 percent of Americans over fifty were divorced. This statistics has risen drastically over the years. In 2011, according to the Census Bureau’s American Community Survey, 15.4 percent divorced and 2.1 percent were separated. While divorce rates have gone down, the divorce rates for people over 50 has doubled since 1990. […]
No one gets married with divorce in their minds. Unhappily, statistics show that half of all marriages will end in divorce. Facing a divorce, and the end of a marriage, is a traumatic event. It has been equated to the death of a parent. It is a very sad time in one’s life. It is […]
No one gets married with divorce in mind. So when a couple decides to adopt children, divorce is definitely not in their plans. But life happens and sometimes a marriage just isn’t working, and the only thing to do is to get a divorce. When adoptive parents decide to get a divorce, it is the […]
There are many reasons why the marriage rate has dropped drastically in the United States, and one may be the student-loan debt. A person who has graduated from a private university and borrowed money to pay his or her tuition could owe as much as $200,000. After graduating many cannot get a job and have […]