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. Plus, fewer Boomers remarried than Silents. As a result, in the 2020s, more than twice as many Boomers are divorced than Silents were at the same age in the 1990s and 2000s (see Figure 3.8).
