Parents of daughters are more likely to divorce than those with sons

Re:Parents of daughters are more likely to divorce than thos... by graphpapa on Saturday February 06, 2021 @10:24PM (#26052365)

Why does it have to be one or the other?

Some relationships absolutely cause less destruction by ending. Some provide sufficiently despite great flaws.

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Re:Parents of daughters are more likely to divorce than thos... by rayiner on Sunday February 07, 2021 @01:02AM (#26053026)

It doesn’t have to be one or the other at an individual level, but the social and legal norms we create have aggregate effects, not just individual effects, and we should be able to talk about those as a distinct issue. From 1960 to 2010, in the US, the percentage of kids living apart from their fathers has tripled, and the percentage of kids living apart from their mothers has doubled.

My culture (and that of like 3/4 of the world’s population) says that’s a bad thing for kids and society as a whole. I used to think westerners were enlightened and had the right idea on allowing and encouraging individual freedom in this area, but now I think they’ve got it wrong. And it’s hard to really know without focusing on what’s been the aggregate effect.

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Re:Parents of daughters are more likely to divorce than thos... by stickfigure on Sunday February 07, 2021 @02:09AM (#26053287)

Those statistics don't seem particularly meaningful. I know a lot of people with divorced parents who remarried/repartnered and the kids now have two sets of parents. They're... fine? Hell, as long as the parent-groups can get along, 4 parents sound better than 2...

But if they can't get along, I'm sure it's terrible. Just like if the parents stay together?

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Re:Parents of daughters are more likely to divorce than thos... by rayiner on Sunday February 07, 2021 @09:13AM (#26055135)

Do those people have college degrees? Just curious about what population you’re sampling.

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