The posting sums up a number of factors leading to this drop in divorces. Couples are waiting longer before they marry. A larger number of people, furthermore, never do marry even though they are in relationships. That is to say we no longer think that "everybody has to get married," which was the way earlier generations thought before the 1960s. Another interesting factor is that more women are better educated and education correlates with divorce. The higher the level of education the lower the rate of divorce.At the moment, we have this image that our world is falling apart, but in fact in many ways it isn't. There are today fewer wars between nations than has been the case before. Levels of violent crimes have been dropping in the U.S. World-wide, the number of automobile fatalities have been decreasing. The latest word is that there may be a vaccine for AIDS within three years or so. And it cannot but be seen as good news for our children and our society at large that families are increasingly stable and durable. One suspects that they are also happier because there is no longer the social pressure to get married whatever.
