Why this site publishes no statistics

There are no figures on Second Marriage Help. Not one percentage, not one failure rate, not one average length of anything. That is a rule this site applies to itself, and this page exists so you can check it.

The rule: a number may appear on this site only after it has been traced to a primary source — the body that collected the data, not an article quoting an article. Anything that cannot be traced is dropped or written without the number. Nothing has cleared that gate yet, so nothing is listed below.

Why the rule is strict in this particular subject

Second marriages attract statistics the way few subjects do. You have almost certainly met a confident figure about how many of them end — repeated without a year, without a country, without saying who was counted or how remarriage was defined. Those details are exactly what decide whether a figure means anything, and they are the first thing lost when a number is passed from page to page.

A person deciding whether to marry again deserves better than a figure whose origin nobody can name. So where a page here would otherwise reach for a number, it describes what people report instead, and says plainly when something is folklore rather than measurement.

What this means when you read a page here

Pages describe patterns, name disagreements, and stop where the evidence stops. Where a question is genuinely open, both readings are printed side by side rather than resolved with a statistic. Where a page cannot help further, it says which kind of professional the next step belongs to.

If a number ever does clear the gate, it appears on this page with its source, the year it was collected, who was counted, and a permalink so a single figure can be cited on its own. Our editorial policy describes the checking process, and sources lists the material the site works from.

Reuse: you may quote these figures with attribution and a link to this page or the primary source. Methodology: see the editorial policy.