4 in 10 new marriages in US are remarriages

A new study has revealed that remarriage is on the rise in the US with 40 percent of the newlyweds being previously married or widowed people tying the knot for the second time.

Pew Research Center's report on remarriage also confirmed that remarried men are far likelier than remarried women to have a spouse at least 10 years younger, the Washington Post reported.

The study also captured a sharp disparity in the way men and women view marriages, as in, most men are eager to marry a second time, while most women say one time was enough.

Andrew J. Cherlin, a sociology professor at Johns Hopkins University said that they are not seeing an outbreak in remarriage fever, instead they are seeing an increase in the number of people who are in a position to remarry.

Cherlin added that the share of the population that's divorced has risen greatly, like, the baby-boomer generation, which experienced more divorce than any generation in history, is now in their 50s and 60s and they've lived long enough, and there are now more of them to get remarried.

Pew's report said 42 million adults remarried in 2013, up from 22 million in 1980 and among married couples today, 23 percent had been married before compared with 13 percent in 1960.

It found that 8 percent of newlyweds in 2013 had been married three times or more and 20 percent of all marriages in 2013 involved spouses who had both been previously married.