OTTAWA, March 9 (UPI) -- A growing number of Canadian men are going through divorce more than once, the country's statistical agency, Statistics Canada reported Wednesday.
Using census information, the agency found in 1973 the number of men getting more than one divorce was 5.2 percent. In 2003, that more than tripled to 16.2 percent.
The increase among divorced women in the same period was only marginally smaller -- from 5.4 percent in 1973 to 15.7 percent in 2003.
Most divorces happened after three years of marriage, when 26.2 out of 1,000 marriages ended in divorce, and statisticians said it appeared the risk of divorce declined slightly with each passing year of marriage.
The national divorce rate rose 1 percent overall in 2003 to 70,828 divorces, although the agency did not factor in whether the number of marriages had also increased in the same period.
