<p>In 2009, about 11,500 people, over the age of 60, were granted divorce, up four percent in two years. <br /><br />This contrasts with a fall in the divorce rate for all age groups of more than 11 percent, Daily Mail reported Friday.<br /><br />"We are really witnessing a major social revolution, with older generations no longer behaving in the traditional manner," the Mail quoted Ros Altmann, director general of the over-50s group Saga, as saying. <br /><br />The figures, released following a parliamentary question, revealed that in 2007, 11,040 people over 60 divorced. By 2009, this had risen to 11,507.<br />With more older men and women returning to the dating scene, many fail to follow the recommendation to use condoms because the risk of an unwanted pregnancy is gone.<br /><br />This has led to increases in sexually transmitted diseases such as gonorrhoea, chlamydia, genital warts, genital herpes and syphilis, the Mail said.</p>
<p>In 2009, about 11,500 people, over the age of 60, were granted divorce, up four percent in two years. <br /><br />This contrasts with a fall in the divorce rate for all age groups of more than 11 percent, Daily Mail reported Friday.<br /><br />"We are really witnessing a major social revolution, with older generations no longer behaving in the traditional manner," the Mail quoted Ros Altmann, director general of the over-50s group Saga, as saying. <br /><br />The figures, released following a parliamentary question, revealed that in 2007, 11,040 people over 60 divorced. By 2009, this had risen to 11,507.<br />With more older men and women returning to the dating scene, many fail to follow the recommendation to use condoms because the risk of an unwanted pregnancy is gone.<br /><br />This has led to increases in sexually transmitted diseases such as gonorrhoea, chlamydia, genital warts, genital herpes and syphilis, the Mail said.</p>