Divorce Rate Quotes

Divorce is probably of nearly the same age as marriage. I believe, however, that marriage is some weeks the more ancient.

The divorce rate in 1946 was higher than it ever had been and as high as it ever would be until the '70s. The reason was that prior relationships had not endured the strain of war.

Americans, among the marryingest people in the world, are also the divorcingest.

Divorces are getting so common that a woman I know doesn't bother getting a new marriage license. They just punch her old one and give her a transfer. You can't teach an old dog new tricks - so she keeps changing dogs.

I'm not convinced about marriage. Divorce is so easy, and that fact that gay people are not allowed to marry takes much of the meaning out of it. Committing yourself to one person is sacred.

Children born of married parents in America face a higher risk of seeing them break up than children born of unmarried parents in Sweden.

Marriage is probably the chief cause of divorce.

I'm one of the people that were divorced by 30, which is apparently a growing group... Obviously it's something that affects you forever. It's going to be interesting to see in ten, twenty years what kind of lasting effect young divorce has on the people that are doing it because it's becoming more and more common.

I actually think the subject of young divorce is pretty funny; I'd like to write a movie about it.

People don't get married to get divorced. Maybe people weren't meant to be together forever.

I assumed I'd never be divorced.

Sadly, half of marriages end in divorce. Half of my girl friends and male friends have been through one, and their kids are doing great. There's no shame around it - unless you want to project that on to yourself - but certainly there's no longer cultural shame. Everyone is walking through it.

It's better to have three broken engagements than three divorces.

It's true: a lot of sportspeople really struggle to find something to do when they finish. It tips them into all sorts of strange things. With ex-footballers, it's really scary. I think 70% of them get divorced within five years. It's hard. You go from being really famous to not that famous. Your salary drops through the floor.

Marriages that last are with people who do not live in Los Angeles.

The institution of marriage is not under attack as a result of the President’s words. Marriage was under attack years ago by men who viewed women as property and children as trophies of sexual prowess. Marriage is under attack by low wages, high incarceration, unfair tax policy, unemployment, and lack of education. Marriage is under attack by clergy who proclaim monogamy yet think nothing of stepping outside the bonds of marriage to have multiple affairs with “preaching groupies.” Same-gender couples did not cause the high divorce rate, but our adolescent views of relationships and our inability as a community to come to grips with the ethic of love and commitment did. We still confuse sex with love and romance with commitment.

Normally, I don't recommend me for wedding dresses – they all get a divorce.

I would say that I wasn't so much afraid of marriage as afraid of divorce.

If divorce has increased by one thousand percent, don't blame the women's movement. Blame the obsolete sex roles on which our marriages were based.

Certainly the attrition rate of Hollywood couples looms large.

I don't know what reality television does, but it breaks up relationships.

Modern marriage has lost its meaning--consequently it is being abolished.

… the notion that gay marriage is harmful to marriage, is sort of mind-boggling, because these are people trying to get married. But it seems to me, if you want to defend marriage against something, defend it against divorce.

Christians don't steal or lie, they don't get divorced or have abortions. If the Ten Commandments were followed by everyone we would be able to fire half the police force and in six months the prisons would be all half empty.

America may soon experience the transition that has already occurred in Australia where living together before marriage has become a protective factor against divorce.