If you’ve recently tied the knot for the first time, here’s a bit of a buzzkill: according to new research about first marriages from the CDC, you only have about a 50 percent chance of staying married long enough to celebrate your 20th wedding anniversary.
According to census data, the divorce rate in rural Americans has increased seven-fold since 1970.
Now, for the first time, rural Americans are just as likely as city dwellers to have a marriage end in a divorce.
Experts attribute this explosion in divorce in America's heartland to changing values; divorce is no longer as stigmatized as it once was.