Rise in single people, who earn less, worries researchers

Re:Rise in single people, who earn less, worries researchers by danielvf on Sunday October 10, 2021 @11:08PM (#28824224)

Actually, the US currently has 37% as many divorces as marriages per year, and that ratio been going down for the past 40 years.

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/marriage-divorce.htm

Even that stat is a bit misleading, since first marriages have been almost twice a likely to last as subsequent marriages.

And even that is still misleading about marriage odds. Low income, teen or near teen women have a much higher rate of divorce than the rest of the population.

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Re:Rise in single people, who earn less, worries researchers by mbg721 on Sunday October 10, 2021 @11:30PM (#28824353)

Many marriage stats are more measures of how marriage is defined by society than measures of how married relationships are going. People who would have gotten married just for show 50 years ago aren't getting married at all now, because various stigmas are gone. Same-sex marriages are counted now but weren't before. The average marriage in Utah is very different from the average marriage in Massachusetts, and neither one of them is your marriage.

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Re:Rise in single people, who earn less, worries researchers by satvikpendem on Monday October 11, 2021 @05:04AM (#28826283)

Is that not because fewer people are getting married overall? I'd like to see those stats, number of people getting married vs divorcing.

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Re:Rise in single people, who earn less, worries researchers by danielvf on Monday October 11, 2021 @09:12AM (#28827927)

Here you go: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/dvs/national-marriage-divorce-...

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