May 272010
If you live in Wayne County, Indiana, and are over 15 years old, there’s a 19.2 percent chance that you’ve been divorced.
- This mostly rural county hugging the Ohio border, renowned in the 1920s as a KKK stronghold, leads the nation in percentage of divorced residents. Florida’s Monroe County, which includes the Keys, holds second place at 18 percent.
If you’re a female serial cohabiter—a woman who has lived with more than one partner before your first marriage—then you’re 40 percent more likely to get divorced than women who have never done so.
- Although “playing house” seems like good practice for married life, it can also make living together seem less permanent. “People feel like, ‘If it doesn’t work out, we can just step out of this,’” says lawyer Emily Doskow. Statistics show that marriages preceded by cohabitation have better chances of success when couples became officially engaged before moving in together.
Source by http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-05-19/15-ways-to-predict-divorce/3/