Divorce Is in Decline — But Still Remarkably High
July 29, 2025
Despite the Left’s continued systemic attack on the institution of marriage, a recent report suggests that new marriages are stronger than in past decades. According to the Institute for Family Studies, new marriages — those begun in the 2010s — have proved more resilient than those from every decade since the 1950s.
Although the cultural revolution of the 1960s and 1970s radically damaged the stability of American marriages, to the point that roughly 50 percent of marriages formed in the 1970s and 1980s have ended in divorce, that trend has reversed to some extent in recent decades. Since the end of the 1970s, marriages have slowly become less likely to end in divorce.
