Current Trends in Marriage and Divorce among American Women

This study examines recent trends and future prospects regarding marriage and divorce patterns among women in the United States. Results indicate that first marriages are taking place later more adult women will never marry at all divorce has likely peaked remarriage after divorce is becoming less frequent and among current adult cohorts of women those representing the first ten years of the baby boom are expected to have the highest incidence of divorce. Data are primarily from the June 1985 Current Population Survey This is a revised version of a paper originally presented at the 1986 Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America (see Population Index Vol. 52 No. 3 Fall 1986 pp. 411-2). (EXCERPT)