The Single Factor That’s Causing Divorce Rates Among Boomers To Soar

They say wisdom grows with age, but that might not be the case when it comes to marriage.

The divorce rate among couples aged 50 and up has no less than doubled between 1990 and 2009, driving researchers in search of the reason why.

There are the usual culprits when it comes to sending happy unions down the toilet, such as age, race, finances and education. But a team of sociologists from Bowling Green University think they’ve come up with the key reason so many seniors are calling it quits: Past divorces.

In an upcoming study called “The Gray Divorce Revolution,” researchers say adults in their second and third marriages have a 150 percent greater chance at splitting up than first timers, according to Total Divorce.

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