Millennials Are Making <br />the US Divorce Rate Drop Americans under the age of 45 <br />are seemingly approaching <br />the idea of marriage differently <br />than their predecessors. Baby boomers — who account for a large percentage of divorce rates — married young, while Gen Xers and millennials <br />are waiting until they're older to wed. Because of this, the U.S. divorce rate has dropped 18% from 2008 to 2016, according to an analysis by the University of Maryland. Philip Cohen, sociology professor at the University of Maryland, via 'Bloomberg' Despite the decline in divorce <br />overall, baby boomers continue <br />to divorce at unusually high rates. Between 1990 and 2015,<br />the divorce rate doubled Many less educated <br />and poorer Americans <br />are skipping marriage altogether.
