Marriages increase as divorce rates fall
On behalf of Stange Law Firm, PC posted in divorce on Wednesday, November 23, 2016. Divorce rates in Missouri and around the country fell to a near 40-year low in 2015 according to a report released Nov. 17 by Bowling Green University’s National Center for Family and Marriage Research. Another NCFMR report reveals that the number of marriages for each 1,000 unmarried women increased from 31.9 in 2014 to 32.2 in 2015. The researchers say these findings suggest that marriage rates could be stabilizing after years of decline. Divorce rates for every 1,000 married women fell from 17.6 in 2014