Young divorcees all too common

It used to be that divorce was a topic for older, middle-aged adults. Not anymore. College students have joined the ranks of an increasing number of divorcees in the United States.

According to an online report from the National Center for Health Services, half of all marriages in which the female is 18 or younger end in separation or divorce within ten years.

No one under the age of 20 should get married. If you entered the phrase ‘divorce rate’ into any search engine, you’d probably find that most articles you pull up indicate that young couples in the United States have a 50 percent chance of getting divorced. Why rush? There’s so much life to look forward to.

Some people blame it on how promiscuous young adults have become. Others said young adults, the primary source of students at Fresno State, do not take relationships seriously.

The younger you are when marrying the better chance you have of divorcing. Or that is what we’ve been told.

According to the Divorce Reform Web site, early marriage is a key predictor of divorce later on. The statistics supporting this fact are staggering.

Forty percent of married couples under 20 will end up divorced. Those who marry after 25 have only a 24 percent chance of divorcing.

So how young is too young? Everyone seems to be trying to answer this question.

Divorcemag.com released a study in 2002 showing that when males divorced for the first time, it was by age 30; females at 29. For some those ages aren’t that far away.

If you get married young, the numbers are not on your side and encourage young people to slow down. Who knows, maybe you can beat the odds.

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