-    During 1995, 2.3 million marriages and 1.2 million divorces took
    place in the United States. That meant 6,400 marriages and 3,200
    divorces on a typical day.
      
   -    Between 1990 and 1995, the annual number of marriages dropped
    by 107,000, while the annual number of divorces fell 13,000.
        
   -    Nevada was the nation's marriage and divorce capital, racking up
    both the highest marriage rate (88.1 marriages per 1,000
    population) and divorce rate (8.1 divorces per 1,000 population)
    of any state in 1995. Hawaii was a distant runner-up in the
    marriage rate (15. while Oklahoma, Wyoming and New Mexico (each
    at 6.7) tied for second place in divorce rate.

   -    Among 18- to 24-year-olds, 24 percent of women and 14 percent of
    men were married as of 1995. The figures rose to 64 percent and 55
    percent for 25- to 34-year-olds, and 74 percent each for 35- to
    54-year-olds. For persons 55 and over, the percentage falls to 53
         percent for women, but increases to 79 percent for men.

   -    The estimated median age at first marriage in 1995 was 24.5 years
    for women and 26.9 years for men.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau
http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/fs98-02.html

I was 19 when I first got married in '93, so I was part of that 24% bracket in '95.
I'm surprised that the percentage is so low, because in our part of the country back then it seemed everyone my age was either engaged or married!
Most of them are still married today...guess I'm the odd one out...and maybe the lucky one perhaps...
Sometimes it's hard being single out here, if you take a look around you...

I know that marriage is not something I have experience in but I am well aware of what goes on. I've been curiouse about it ever since I can remember because my parents were never married. I wanted them to be, but now I realise that it would just have ended in divorce or worse. My parents were just 2 people who thought they were in love...maybe they still are but judging by how they speak to one another, and how I hear them fight if they ever see eachother, I don't think so.  For that reason I have taken a perticular interest in marriage & divorce. I know that some people say that odds are you marry someone who is like your father, but I certainly hope not in my case. I do love my father, I love everyone in my family but I would NEVER put up with a man like him. I still think divorce is wrong on many levels, but there will always be those cases that make it 100% acceptable.