Statistically, about half the marriages in the country end up in divorce. That’s why it makes sense to be sure about your partner’s divorce background whenever engagement or marriage is on the horizon. It’s no trouble at all nowadays to run a quick public divorce record check on someone. Whether it’s for your self or on behalf of somebody else, it’s always better to be safe than sorry.

If we tracked the folks in the US who got married, there is a 4 in 10 chance that we will be able to see them divorcing in due course. That’s what the statistics say. Whatever happened to the virtue of for better or worse, till death do us part? It’s also reasonable to suspect that some of these people are the type who will have no qualms about repeating the act. It’s thus a good idea to be extra careful with people on that count these days.

Three highlights in people’s life: birth, marriage and death. They don’t come any bigger than that, and not necessarily in that order either. Of the three, marriage is arguably the most volatile in terms of possible outcome. With birth, natural mortality rate is relatively low even in the most backward corners of the world. And death, dead people just don’t revive. Marriage is another story. Married people can divorce, and divorce they sure do. It is surveyed that about 40% of Americans who ever married, divorced before.