Interest in remarriage is on the wane
The invitations are in the mail. Jennifer Beltz and T. J. Gurski of Commerce Township, Michigan, are defying the odds—they’re taking the plunge a second time.
“When I got divorced, I said, ‘I’m never getting married again,’” says Beltz, 41, who works in marketing.
That sentiment seems to be quite common among those jaded by a failed first union. A new analysis of federal data provided exclusively to USA Today shows the United States’ remarriage rate has dropped 40 percent over the past 20 years.
