Age twenty-five seems to be the magic cutoff point. Couples who marry before that age are exceptionally more divorce-prone than couples who wait until they are twenty-six or older.
But age, of course, isn't the only consideration. According to the Rutgers study, other factors of marital resilience include:
1. Education. The better-educated you are, statistically speaking, the better off your marriage will be. The better-educated a woman is, in particular, the happier her marriage will be.
2.Children. The statistics show that couples with young children at home report "more disenchantment" within their marriage than couples with grown children, or couples who have no children at all.
3.Cohabitation. It appears that people who live together before marriage have a slightly higher divorce rate than those who wait until marriage cohabit.
4. Heterogamy. The less familiar you and your partner are in terms of race, age, religion, ethnicity, cultural background, and career, the most likely you are to someday divorce.
5. Social integration. The more tightly woven a couple is, within a community of friends and family, the stronger their marriage will be.
6. Religiousness. The more religious a couple is, the more likely they are to stay married, though faith offers only a light edge.
7.Gender Fairness. Marriages based on a traditional, restrictive sense about a woman's place in the home tend to be less strong and less happy than marriages where the man and the woman regard each other as equals, and where the husband participates in more traditionally female and thankless household chores. 引自 marriage and Infatuation
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