Divorce Rate Skyrockets Marrying After 32, US Study

Signifying a major shift in divorce trends, a new research has shown that couples who get married in their thirties are more likely to end up in divorce than those who get hitched in the late twenties.

The findings showed that after 2, the odds of divorce increased by 5 percent every year. This is contrary to a previous study which showed delayed marriages lowered risk of divorce rates.

"This is a big change," said Nicholas Wolfinger from the University of Utah in the US.

"To the best of my knowledge, it is only recently that marriage of thirty-something started to incur a higher divorce risk," Wolfinger said.

For the study, the team of researchers analysed data from the US National Survey of family Growth between 2006 to 2010.

"It appears to be a trend that has gradually developed over the past 20 years: A study based on 2002 data observed that the divorce risk for people who married in their 30s was flattening out, rather than continuing to decline through that decade of life as it previously had," Wolfinger added.

Wolfinger also goes on to point out that prior to the age of 32, every additional year of marriage brings down the odds of being divorced by 11 percent.