Diane Johnson in a review essay “The Marrying Kind”:
By the time they’re forty, 84 percent of American women have been married, a higher percentage than in other Western nations; and more than half (54 percent) of marriages will have broken up within fifteen years. About the same percentage of “cohabiting relationships” will have broken up even sooner. Americans divorce more often than others do and have more partners, more children out of wedlock, and more abortions.
Along the way, a total of 90 percent of women, almost all of them, will have one partner or more during their lives, and some many, many more …