The topic about marriages and divorces came up, so I took a look at the McHenry County statistics from the Illinois Department of Public Health.
Despite population decline, the number of marriages this decade has remained stable.
Divorces, on the other hand, are down.
Perhaps people can’t afford to get divorces because of bad economic conditions.
Here are statewide statistics since 1973:
My math is fuzzy but if we double the pool of folks capable of legal marriage and the number and rate of marriage goes down…. Is that interesting?