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Remarriage - How Many, How Soon

Many people who get divorced ultimately remarry. Younger people remarry sooner than older people. Men tend to remarry sooner than women.

Here are some details:

• 78% of women age 20-24 at divorce remarry; 54% of women age 35-39 do.
• Seventy percent of women who eventually remarry do so within 3 years.
• Over 40% of marriages in 1991 are remarriages for one or both parties.
• Among white women age 35-39 in 1990 who had been divorced, 67% had remarried.
• Among Black women age 35-39 in 1990 who had been divorced, 54% had remarried.
• Among women of Hispanic origin age 35-39 in 1990 who had been divorced, 52% had remarried.
• In the Ahrons study, by 5 years post divorce, 45% of mothers had remarried; 72% of fathers.
• In the Wallerstein study, often one partner made a stable second marriage.

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