Title: Marriage statistics, separation & infidelity statistics
Headings: Marriage statistics, separation & infidelity statistics
Marriage statistics, separation & infidelity statistics
Incidence of marriage
Most adults have married only once
Most people who had ever divorced are currently married
Widowed statistics
Differences in spousal ages
Duration of marriage and separation
Infidelity statistics

Content: Most people in this age group who had experienced widowhood were currently widowed (19 percent of men
and 55 percent of women). Differences in spousal ages
Women are 2.5 years younger than their husbands, on average. For first marriages, an increased percentage of women are the same age or older than the men they marry. About 38 percent of women in their first marriage, who married between 1945 and 1964, were the same age or older than their husbands, compared with 48 percent of currently married women in their first marriage who married between 1970 and 1989. Spouses in their second marriages are about twice as likely to have at least a 5-year age gap as people in their first marriage, 40 percent and less than 20 percent
respectively. Duration of marriage and separation
First marriages which end in divorce last 7 to 8 years, on
average. The median number of years a first marriage lasted
which ended in divorce was about 8
years for men and women overall. The median time from marriage to separation was shorter, at about 6.6 years with about 1 year between
separation and divorce. Half of those who remarry after a divorce from a first
marriage do so within about 3 years. Half of the men and women who remarried after divorcing
from their first marriage did so in about 3 years.