In 2023, over 1.8 million Americans divorced. Additionally, a third of Americans who have ever been married have also experienced divorce.

It found the national divorce rate was 7.1 new divorces for every 1,000 women. Meanwhile, in Arkansas, the state with the highest divorce rate, about 12 women per 1,000 filed for divorce that year.

Women are more likely than men to initiate a “gray divorce,” research shows. Boomer women are generally more financially independent than their mothers were, giving them more options to support ...