U.S. Sen. Sam Brownback, hosted America's first state-wide Marriage Summit in Topeka, KS, in 1999. Clergy from across Kansas attended the summit to learn how their churches and communities can work to reduce the divorce rate.
In communities where Marriage Savers has been in effect, divorce rates are said to have dropped anywhere from 18 to 35 percent.
Kansas is consistently ranked in the middle of most statistical results, being a state with a fairly average divorce rate, fairly representative of the general divorce trend in the US.
In 1990, the divorce rate stood at 5 per 1000 population that gradually declined to 3.3 per 1000 population in the year 2004. The marriage rate in Kansas is quite high, which stood at 7.3 per 1000 population in 2002.
Kansas has very high rate of joint custody, being 43.6, a factor considered to be very important in lowering the divorce rate.
In the recent years, the marriage age has been rising accompanied by a fall in the divorce rate.
The median age at first marriage for men is 25.5 years and for women it is 24.5 years.
