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Re:What If Friendship, Not Marriage, Was at the Center of Life? by fknorangesite on Thursday June 01, 2023 @10:42AM (#36151695)
> As advanced countries' systems for marriage and child-rearing continue to fail

US divorce rates are at a 50-year low.

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Re:What If Friendship, Not Marriage, Was at the Center of Life? by OJFord on Thursday June 01, 2023 @10:51AM (#36151836)
That's not a complete argument though (not to say the conclusion's wrong, I have no idea) - what's happened to marriage, non-divorce separation, death, and birth rates?
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Re:What If Friendship, Not Marriage, Was at the Center of Life? by volkl48 on Thursday June 01, 2023 @12:11PM (#36153240)
Marriage rates are also there, so that statistic is not really that surprising.

Most of the people who would have been getting divorced in the 1970s, today look like a relationship that fails after a few months or years, before reaching the point where they would have decided to get married.

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Re:What If Friendship, Not Marriage, Was at the Center of Life? by MisterBastahrd on Thursday June 01, 2023 @03:40PM (#36156295)
US marriage rates are at a 120 year low.
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