{"id":4836,"date":"2018-06-20T12:12:11","date_gmt":"2018-06-20T12:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ampop.am\/en\/?p=4836"},"modified":"2019-02-09T18:05:54","modified_gmt":"2019-02-09T18:05:54","slug":"married-and-divorced-why-are-desires-changed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ampop.am\/en\/married-and-divorced-why-are-desires-changed\/","title":{"rendered":"Marriage and Divorce: A Look At Love Life in Armenia"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Marriage is declining in Armenia while divorce is on the rise, according to the RA Statistical Committee (formerly National Statistical Service) report issued in 2017. Those who do choose to get married are waiting longer to take the plunge.<\/p>\n

Since 2010, marriage rates have fallen by 15% whereas divorce has increased by 31% in the same period. Divorce is particularly common for couples married more than 20 years, and many couples often fall apart in the first four years of marriage.<\/p>\n

In the period 2010\u20142017, the average age of brides and grooms has risen too. The average bride today will be 26, as opposed to 25 in 2010. Her groom is now mostly likely to be 30, instead of 28.<\/p>\n

In 2017, the largest number of marriages in Armenia was registered in Yerevan \u2013 6204. Divorce seems particularly common in Lori region. 517 of last year\u2019s 3940 divorces nationwide were registered in Lori.<\/p>\n

Of 3648 divorces registered in 2016 at least 776 divorced couples had 1 child while 1106 couples had 2 or more children. The rest of the divorcees (1766 couples) did not have children.<\/p>\n

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    Marriage is declining in Armenia while divorce is on the rise, according to the RA Statistical Committee (formerly National Statistical Service) report issued in 2017. Those who do choose to get married are waiting longer to take the plunge. Since 2010, marriage rates have fallen by 15% whereas divorce has increased by 31% […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4834,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[237],"tags":[188,248,247,246],"class_list":["post-4836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-social","tag-armenia","tag-average-age","tag-devorce","tag-marriage"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t