how many marriages end in divorce
How Many Marriages Actually End In Happily Ever After? It is often said that marriage has a 50 percent chance of success. This percentage comes, naturally, from the divorce rate. In February 2012 PolitiFact.com stated that the overall probability of marriages now ending in divorce falls between 40% and 50%.. We tend to assume that the 50% (or 60%) who stay together do so happily.