Today is Divorce Day, the largest number of divorce enquiries in the UK happens today 8th January, each year, and according to the TV news, the latest available figures show the following from the ONS. (Office of National Statistics)
106,000 divorces took place in 2016. = 5.6% of all heterosexual married couples living in UK.
Money/financial pressures are given as the main cause of divorce.
43% of marriages now end in divorce, with the average length of a marriage only 12 years.
Since it continues to increase and there is now nearly a 50/50 chance that a marriage will fail, will marriage survive or decline in future years? What are your thoughts?
UK or not, no one should celebrate. People divorce for many reasons (other than money)
Even with my divorce, it wasn't a celebration but needed
You are right, and there isn't an actual 'Divorce Day' as a day to be celebrated here in the UK. It has just become known as that, there is not a formal 'Divorce Day' it is more a colloquialism for the day when the maximum number of divorce applications are made here in the UK. Usually falls around the 8th January, the first week of the new year.
Some divorces are celebrated, it all depends on the people involved, but I didn't celebrate.
