DIVORCE RATE FALLING AMONG YOUNG COUPLES

Americans under the age of 45 have found a novel way to rebel against their elders: They’re staying married. New data show younger couples are approaching relationships differently from baby boomers, who married young, divorced, remarried and so on.

Generation X and especially millennials are being pickier about who they marry, tying the knot at older ages when education, careers and finances are on track. The result is a U.S. divorce rate that dropped 18 per cent from 2008 to 2016, according to an analysis by University of Maryland sociology professor Philip Cohen. The marriage rate has also fallen over the last several decades. Boomers have continued to divorce at unusually high rates, all the way into their 60s and 70s.