TIME
After surveying the nation’s mating habits, Sociologist Thomas P. Monahan reported last week to a Washington meeting of the American Sociological Society that the “remarriage group,” once composed almost entirely of widows and widowers, is now about 70% formed by divorced men and women. What’s more, noted Monahan, “our divorce rate is being compounded by a repetitiousness of divorce among a divorce-prone population group.” Sociologist Monahan’s solemn term-of-the-trade for such multiple marrying: “sequential polygamy.”
More Must-Reads from TIME
- Inside Elon Musk’s War on Washington
- Introducing the 2025 Closers
- Colman Domingo Leads With Radical Love
- Why, Exactly, Is Alcohol So Bad for You?
- The Motivational Trick That Makes You Exercise Harder
- 11 New Books to Read in February
- How to Get Better at Doing Things Alone
- Column: Trump’s Trans Military Ban Betrays Our Troops
Contact us at letters@time.com