Divorce rate cut in half for couples who discussed relationship movies (2014)

Re:Divorce rate cut in half for couples who discussed relati... by GuB-42 on Sunday March 07, 2021 @03:45PM (#26379609)

I think it is perfectly reasonable to think that counselling correlates with divorce. People normally only go through counselling when things go wrong, and divorces also happen when things go wrong. I guess people are more likely to die after seeing a doctor for the same reason.

Refusing counselling against the advise of a specialist is another metric. And while I think that indeed, it correlates with higher divorce rates, it is not obvious at all and it took a few studies to get that result.

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Re:Divorce rate cut in half for couples who discussed relati... by yarcob on Monday March 08, 2021 @01:50AM (#26382903)

Maybe I chose the wrong word. Writing good summaries is hard!

What they describe in the paper (they call it a "treatment") is more like a training for newlyweds.

Maybe I should have phrased it like this:

Couples who decline to take part in free relationship training have higher divorce rates.

Or, more positively:

Couples who participate in free relationship training have lower divorce rates.

(But that implies causality, so it is again somewhat misleading)

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