--- title: men-like-remarrying-more-than-women description: Nearly two thirds of ex-married men would consider doing it again canonical: https://time.com/3584827/pew-marriage-divorce-remarriage/ author: Belinda Luscombe article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-11-14T15:00:30.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:42:46.711Z og:title: Why Men Want to Get Remarried More than Women Do og:description: Nearly two thirds of ex-married men would consider doing it again og:url: https://time.com/3584827/pew-marriage-divorce-remarriage/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3e1fb91ec14c16c6/698768ca428a9e2d06cc560b/97761420.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 5142 og:image:height: 2892 og:image:alt: 97761420 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Why Men Want to Get Remarried More than Women Do twitter:description: Nearly two thirds of ex-married men would consider doing it again twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3e1fb91ec14c16c6/698768ca428a9e2d06cc560b/97761420.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Men Want to Remarry; Women Are 'Meh' > Sponsored content. 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It is a free newsletter available at time.com/newsletters.  by [Belinda Luscombe](https://time.com/author/belinda-luscombe/)  ## Belinda Luscombe Editor at Large Nov 14, 2014 3:00 PM UTC  Ojo Images—GettyImages  by [Belinda Luscombe](https://time.com/author/belinda-luscombe/)  ## Belinda Luscombe Editor at Large Nov 14, 2014 3:00 PM UTC Americans, who have lost a little of their ardor for marriage, are still pretty game to _re_marry. About 40% of all the new marriages in 2013 were not first marriages and in half of those cases, both spouses had ridden in that rodeo before. And new [analysis from Pew Research](//www.pewsocialtrends.org/2014/11/14/four-in-ten-couples-are-saying-i-do-again/) finds that men are much more enamored of remarriage than women are. “Most currently divorced or widowed men are open to the idea of remarriage, but women in the same circumstances are less likely to be,” says the report, which draws on figures from a survey it conducted in May and June. Almost two thirds of men either want to remarry or would at least consider it, while fewer than a half of women would.  Perhaps it’s not surprising then that more guys do get remarried than women. Almost two thirds of men who have been married before and got divorced or were widowed wed again, whereas only a smidgen more than half of the women do. There are lots of possible reasons for the gender discrepancy. Women tend to live longer, so they may outlast all their potential suitors. Or, since women now have more economic freedom than they did 50 years ago, they may feel less need for a partner. And while women still bear the bulk of the home care duties, once liberated, they may feel disinclined to enter into another legally binding agreement to look after somebody else. However, the Pew analysis seems to suggest that the guys are being the shrewder partners, at least financially. “On key economic measures, remarried adults fare better than their currently divorced counterparts and about as well as those in their first marriages,” says the report, which gets its figures from analyzing American Community Survey data. Only 7% of people who are remarried live in poverty, compared to 19% of people who are divorced and still single. “Homeownership, which often reflects wealth, is also much higher for the remarried than the divorced—79% versus 58%.” Of course, it may not be that the spouses are more financially stable _because_ they are married. It might be that more financially stable people are in a better position to attract partners, build sturdy relationships and get married. Slightly less than a quarter of all people who are married in the U.S. today are actually remarried people. Fifty years ago, they only represented about 13% of married people. In the same half century, marriage has fallen quite markedly out of favor among the young. 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