According to a recently released analysis of U.S. census figures, Georgia is near the top of the list of states where men and women most often end marriages.
For every 1,000 men married in Southern states in 2009, 10.2 divorced. The rate was higher among Southern women with an average of 11.1 divorces for every 1,000 women. Divorce rates in Georgia exceeded 10 per 1,000 for both men and women in 2009. For some Southern women, the divorce rate topped 16 per 1,000.
The divorce rate in the Northeast averaged 7.5 divorces for every 1,000 women and 7.2 per 1,000 men, falling well below the respective national averages of 9.2 and 9.7.
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