Grey Divorce
ARTICLE BY
David MacDonald
Half of all marriages end in divorce. That statistic is incorrect but amazingly pervasive. It’s one of those numbers that has taken on a life of its own. In fact, most marriages last. According to a 2008 estimate, about four in ten marriages in Canada will break up within 30 years. And contrary to some conventional wisdom, the divorce rate is not rising dramatically.
What is on the rise, however, is the proportion of people who are divorced later in life. According to the Vanier Institute, the median age of people getting divorced rose by about five years between 1991 and 2008. This phenomenon is sometimes called the rise of “grey divorce.”
About a fifth of late Baby Boomers (born 1955 to 1965) tell us they are already divorced
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