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Purdue expert: Overall divorce rates lowest in decades but ‘gray divorce’ soars

March 11, 2025
Purdue expert: Overall divorce rates lowest in decades but ‘gray divorce’ soars

The fastest rising demographic dissolving marriages through “D-I-V-O-R-C-E” are members of “A-A-R-P.”

For people ages 65 and older, the divorce rate was 15% in 2022, about triple of such rates in the 1990s for the same age set, according to the Institute for Family Studies. These numbers open eyes because overall divorce rates have dipped significantly in the last few decades.

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