Marriage and Divorce Rates in the US - Historical Trends

As stated in a previous post, the US has the highest divorce rates across nations. Often times is assumed that  this is some recent trend, but in fact divorce (to marriage rates) started rising around 1970 and settled at around 50% in the last 1970's where it's remained ever since.

Overall divorce rates have actually dropped, but so have overall marriage rates (hence the consistent divorce-to-marriage rates).