According to the National Center for Family & Marriage Research, the national divorce rate in the United States dropped to a 40-year low: with 15.7 divorces per 1000 married women.
Geographic analysis of these statistics revealed that, with a few exceptions, the majority of the states in the south were among the highest divorce rates and the majority of the states in the Midwest and Northeast were among the lowest divorce rates. While individual states are still seeing isolated spikes in divorce rates, it is encouraging to see the divorce rate drastically trending downward.
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