Re:The U.S. Divorce Rate Has Hit a 50-Year Low
by vmception on Wednesday November 11, 2020 @01:07PM
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> What’s worse, all signs point to a continuing downward trend for new marriages.
I greatly disagree with the phrasing.
It puts too much emphasis on marriage as a desired state when clearly some non-negligible subset of the data is signaling something else that the author is not considering at all.
The article makes passing mention of a list of reasons people aren't getting married, taking a look at that study[1] shows
"Not ready for the commitment"
and
"Haven't found the right person"
accounting for 70% of all reasons, equivalently across both sexes.
did they factor in "not interested and don't really think about it except when people keep bringing it up for me" with the implication that of course the sentiment can change if someone made that connection or found such an arrangement interesting with another person?
I think the entire framing around this needs to match what people actually think, and I think it neglects a very common sentiment which would become more common as more people become aware that others think this way. Good news, then the divorce rate drops much closer to 0 or perhaps the financial repercussions around divorce are modernized and made more pragmatic.
I greatly disagree with the phrasing.
It puts too much emphasis on marriage as a desired state when clearly some non-negligible subset of the data is signaling something else that the author is not considering at all.
The article makes passing mention of a list of reasons people aren't getting married, taking a look at that study[1] shows
"Not ready for the commitment"
and
"Haven't found the right person"
accounting for 70% of all reasons, equivalently across both sexes.
did they factor in "not interested and don't really think about it except when people keep bringing it up for me" with the implication that of course the sentiment can change if someone made that connection or found such an arrangement interesting with another person?
I think the entire framing around this needs to match what people actually think, and I think it neglects a very common sentiment which would become more common as more people become aware that others think this way. Good news, then the divorce rate drops much closer to 0 or perhaps the financial repercussions around divorce are modernized and made more pragmatic.
[1]https://ifstudies.org/ifs-admin/resources/final2-ifs-single-... , page 11