1992
“The divorce rate remains, stubbornly, one out of two. The out-of-wedlock birthrate has tripled since 1970; it is among the highest in the ‘developed’ world,” Newsweek wrote. Today, though the proportion of births outside of marriage has steadied to around 40 percent over the past five years, the divorce rate has declined considerably since the 1990s. Today, according to most recent data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the divorce rate in the U.S. is 2.4 percent per 1,000 total population, compared to rates of higher than 4 percent in the 1980s and 1990s.
1965
“As the world daily becomes grimmer and grimmer, newspapers find it hard to keep a sense of humor,” Newsweek said. Now, many news outlets have traded political cartoons for videos, like NPR’s…
