The decline in marriage rates, ironically, makes it more possible to remarry after divorce.
Women who divorced and did not remarry lived nearly as long as those who were steadily married.
And although they are not less likely to divorce, they are more likely to remarry - an act that is, as Samuel Johnson wrote, the triumph of hope over experience.
Indeed, if they remarry they can postpone it almost indefinitely.
The vast majority of people who remarry live with their partner first.
Unlike the women of ancient Greece, who were effectively owned by their husbands, Egyptian women also had the right to divorce and remarry.
I'm going to remarry when you die!
Some men and women marry once, but then divorce or live apart, many also divorce and remarry.
Men, for example, are more likely to remarry than are women (especially if they are custodial fathers), and remarriage rates are also higher for whites and the college educated.
Finally, looking at those who do remarry reveals a well-kept secret.
Seventy percent of people who divorce, remarry.
Being divorced is much less harmful to women's health. Women who divorced and did not remarry lived nearly as long as those who were steadily married.
And we will remarry after that," he said, adding that he got the idea from a real estate agency.
Just as the advantaged are now more likely to tie the knot in the first place, they are also more likely to remarry following a divorce.
With the increasing acceptance of cohabitation, why remarry?
Husbands and wives remarry, thinking their spouses are dead.
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