NYT: Majority of Marriages End Before 25 Years, Census Finds
By SAM ROBERTS
September 19, 2007

Don’t stock up on silver anniversary cards. More than half the Americans who might have celebrated their 25th wedding anniversaries since 2000 were either divorced, separated or widowed, according to a census survey released today.

For the first time at least since World War II, married people had a less than even chance of still being married 25 years later.

The latest survey by the Census Bureau confirmed that most Americans eventually marry, but they are marrying later and are less likely to be wed only once. Those trends continued, although the proportion who have ever been divorced, about one in five, remained constant. the rest