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Re:Parents of daughters are more likely to divorce than thos... by sneak on Saturday February 06, 2021 @04:37PM (#26050191)
> No one gets married anticipating or wanting a divorce.

I think the existence of reasonable precautions such as prenuptial agreements indicates that this statement is false: many people enter into a marriage with the full knowledge that it may end before the death of one of the partners (presumably contrary to their desire at the time). I think that counts as "anticipating".

Heinlein put it well: "We always marry strangers."

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Re:Parents of daughters are more likely to divorce than thos... by CountSessine on Saturday February 06, 2021 @04:45PM (#26050270)
I think the existence of reasonable precautions such as prenuptial agreements indicates that this statement is false: many people enter into a marriage with the full knowledge that it may end before the death of one of the partners (presumably contrary to their desire at the time). I think that counts as "anticipating".

Only 5% of all married couples in the United States got married with a prenup. The fact that signing a prenup is so completely in everyone's interest and the fact that only 5% of marriages have them proves my point - no one is anticipating or looking forward to their own divorce.

Heinlein put it well: "We always marry strangers."

He was married 3 times. I'd be willing to bet he had 2 of those divorces behind him when he wrote that.

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Re:Parents of daughters are more likely to divorce than thos... by toast0 on Saturday February 06, 2021 @05:01PM (#26050410)
> The fact that signing a prenup is so completely in everyone's interest and the fact that only 5% of marriages have them proves my point - no one is anticipating or looking forward to their own divorce.

When my spouse and I got married, we had basically no assets of note. (Drafting and) Signing a prenup would have been in the interest of our lawyers, but not our interest.

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Re:Parents of daughters are more likely to divorce than thos... by graphpapa on Saturday February 06, 2021 @10:18PM (#26052333)
If 5% anticipate divorce in that way, it can’t prove your point “no one is anticipating or looking forward to their own divorce”.

That’s one in twenty.

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Re:Parents of daughters are more likely to divorce than thos... by Dylan16807 on Sunday February 07, 2021 @03:48AM (#26053652)
How dare someone slightly exaggerate!
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