"Buy a sweater at H&M and you don't expect it to last forever, but it will look good on you for the time being. With Sweden's high divorce rate, Swedes have a pretty similar attitude to spouses, says Sarah Tarnowski.
Some 55% of all Swedish marriages will end in divorce, giving Sweden the highest divorce rate in the Western world, according to the latest statistics. In the U.S. this figure is 46%; in Italy it is just 10%. If you factor in the number of Swedish couples who choose never to marry, but live and have children together, then break-up, the 'dissolution rate' becomes even higher.
People, who don't marry, don't officially divorce and therefore bypass being registered as broken marriages. Only about 60% of Swedish women will ever marry, thus the out of wedlock birthrate hovers around 50%.
Statistically, Swedes divorce more, marry less, and have more out of wedlock children than any other industrialized Western nation."
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