"The science could not be clearer: on average, men enjoy more money, better sex, and better health when they are married. But of course not everyone who gets married will stay married. About 42 percent of first marriages end in divorce, and the majority of these divorces are initiated by women.10 This means that a large minority of men who marry will end up unwillingly divorced. These men often don’t realize much of a return on their investments in married life."
I'm curious what you single guys think......are the benefits of marriage worth the risk of getting divorced?
This study just seems to gloss over it divorce as ...yeah 42% of first marriages end in divorce, but the brief goes on about a number of things a guy can do to reduce his risk.....so go ahead and get married?
I think that more men would get married if the legal system wasn’t so favorable towards women in regards to marriage/children/everything.
If I were a young man (I’m not) I would be VERY wary unless the young woman were devoutly religious.
Gee, maybe God knew something after all, ya think?
The research says....lol
old men dont want to get married either!
Marriage is the leading cause of divorce. And men rarely win in a divorce. Actually nobody does.
One of the very worst things to happen to marriage itself and successful marriage of couples is that children are given little or no opportunity to have extensive, chaperoned cross gender relationships while they are growing up.
This should be very obvious to the Mormons, prone to larger families, that children raised as brothers and sisters find it much easier to relate to those of the other gender.
85% of women who initiate divorce are willing to make false claims of sexual abuse of the children, if it were to get them a bigger payout.
It would take a very unusual woman for me. If not deaf, blind and dumb at least dumb.
Sex is still wonderful and exciting. But children and grandchildren are even better.
You know where they’re REALLY researching robots?
For sex.
If guys don’t like marriage NOW, just wait until sex robots are an affordable thing.
My prediction:
“REAL sex” will be strictly for making a child, not for pleasure.
That will be a demographic H-Bommb.
Every one who supported or continues to support no fault divorce brought this about.
And make no mistake, Asia went there first. Nobody in the West has any defense for having failed to oppose no fault divorce other than A. They wanted the end of traditional marriage or B. They.are.terminally stupid.
There is no third possibility. All one had to do is look at what had happened to Japan and Korea with no fault divorce.
Sadly I see pastors who still don’t understand the cause and effect here.
Horrifying divorce story I heard here on FR 2 years ago:
They decide to split up, he drives over to her house to pick up the kids for an outing with him.
Ding dong, ding dong, hmmm...that’s weird, she won’t answer the front door.
Sound of approaching sirens...sirens getting closer:
Suddenly from the 2nd story a window opens and something falls, clattering on the porch in front of him.
He bends over, picks it up, it’s a huge KNIFE..!
Super weird..!
Sirens round the corner, 3 cops cars skid to a stop in front of him...!
Cops jump out, take out their guns and at that EXACT instant she open the front door, screaming:
“He screamed he was going to kill me..!!!”
And all that non-sense DID STICK during the divorce and she got full custody.
Cant control and track a guy if hes not married.
The us divorce court system cant make in excess of 50 billion a year if they cant convince men to get married.
Free milk and a cow.
The stats are probably heavily skewed by all those bachelor dads screwed in divorce who are committing suicide.
Any attorney who actually wrote a contract like marriage in any other context would be disbarred for malfeasance.
Men are meant to marry but what they face is the opposite of marriage and building a life with a woman.
What they face is losing everything, most importantly being able to share a home with and raise their own daughters and sons, and also their home itself, their money and possessions, and their future income.
Marriage isn’t good for men when it ends in divorce.
Yes the benefits are worth the risk. If you don’t marry the mother of your children the odds of you having a lifetime relationship with your children and grandchildren are even less than if do marry and divorce later.
Shack up relationships have an even higher break up rate than marriages.
Nearly 60% of first marriages don’t divorce. Get a pre-nup and take the plunge.