Divorce is unpleasant but planning and discretion can make it less so
It can happen to any couple, not just Tom and Katie.
When people get married and utter those famous vows of matrimony, most convey those words with heartfelt sincerity.
Sure it's all good when the rice is being thrown, and the soda cans are dangling from the car's rear, but for some, it goes completely downhill from there.
It doesn't take much research to find that consumers generally regard divorce as being on a par with death and taxes. We surveyed nearly 7 million comments posted on social sites like Twitter and Facebook over the last year and found divorce trending barely above a zero percent approval rating.
Aside from a few who said the experience was "worth it," most of those commenting saw more bad than good in the divorce process:
How many?
And just how many U.S. marriages end in either separation or divorce?
It's actually hard to pinpoint specific figures as there are conflicting statistics from both surveys and government reports, but according to the National Center for Health Statistics, one-third of new marriages will end in divorce within ten years, and 43 percent within 15 years, but those numbers vary and heavily depend on the couple's age.
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