Okay, let’s dig into these Census Bureau divorce statistics a little more before I get all numbered out for one weekend.

The New York Times ran an interesting piece on Thursday with one particular number that has received a lot of play in the press and here at FWW: More than half of all marriages don’t make it to 25 years.

Now, there are a ton of statistics in the story worth mentioning. I think it’s interesting to trace the numbers of marriages over the years that have lasted 25 years. If you got married in the 1950s, you might as well have been Ward and June Cleaver. You had a 70 percent chance of celebrating a silver anniversary, and an 80 percent chance of at least getting to 15 years.

But the number that jumped out at me was buried at the bottom of the story, most likely because it’s a stat that was initially reported earlier this year. But it’s still really significant: Just over 50 percent of women in the U.S. don’t have a husband. They’re either divorced, separated or have never been married. That says something about the divorce rate, of course. But it seems to me it also says something about women living independent lives. And I think that’s good.

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