Generations: The Real Differences Between Gen Z, Millennials, Gen X, Boomers, and Silents—and What They Mean for America's Future

by Jean M. Twenge

Boomers continued the upward trend in divorce that Silents started in the 1960s and 1970s. Although the divorce rate began to decline in 1981, it stayed at historically high levels long enough to produce a significant generational shift in divorce.