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The Divorce Rate Is Dropping. That May Not Actually Be Good News
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| 28 Nov 2018
| Belinda Luscombe
Posted on 11/27/2018 12:52:36 PM PST by Drew68
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Read to the end where Time concludes that lowering divorce rates are bad because "disadvantaged people" are less likely to get married and to enjoy the advantages of marriage then are "privileged people" thereby perpetuating the cycle of inequality.
Liberals lament what the rest of us have understood to be true for thousands of years; getting married, staying married, and making babies within this marriage is what works best.
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posted on
11/27/2018 12:52:36 PM PST
by
Drew68
To: Drew68
In the 80s I did my best to stop the decline.
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posted on
11/27/2018 12:57:35 PM PST
by
Terry Mross
(On some threads it's best to go jst inraight up his seat. to the comments..)
To: Drew68
I didn’t bother to read the whole article. I am amazed that someone is actually willing to admit that the 50% marriage failure statistic is a scam.
In my own circle of friends and acquaintances, I can count less than a handful who divorced.
My parents in the 1980’s. One friend who got married a few weeks before we did, also in the 80’s.
I know a few folks who were divorced before I met them but as far as I know, these are the only two couples I know who got divorced while I knew them.
Forgot, we have a friend who is in the process after working against all odds with her jerk husband for over 20 years.
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posted on
11/27/2018 12:58:56 PM PST
by
cyclotic
( Democrats must be politically eviscerated, disemboweled and demolished.)
To: KC_Lion
Ping for your interest. Millennials saving marriage.
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posted on
11/27/2018 1:00:21 PM PST
by
Drew68
(Twitter @TheRealDrew68 // Click my profile page for great Russian pop music videos.)
To: cyclotic
I am amazed that someone is actually willing to admit that the 50% marriage failure statistic is a scam.The 50% divorce rate comes from among other creative math, counting the "Elizabeth Taylors" out there who have been married (and divorced) multiple times.
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posted on
11/27/2018 1:01:36 PM PST
by
Drew68
(Twitter @TheRealDrew68 // Click my profile page for great Russian pop music videos.)
To: cyclotic
>>we have a friend who is in the process after working against all odds with her jerk husband for over 20 years.
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KellyAnne Conway comes to mind....
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posted on
11/27/2018 1:03:05 PM PST
by
Kalamata
(How to interpret The Revelation: http://bibleresearchtools.com/bible-study-video-series/)
To: Drew68
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posted on
11/27/2018 1:04:58 PM PST
by
GOP Poet
To: Drew68
I realize that. It’s become truth even though it’s based on a lie.
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posted on
11/27/2018 1:05:07 PM PST
by
cyclotic
( Democrats must be politically eviscerated, disemboweled and demolished.)
To: cyclotic
[I didnt bother to read the whole article. I am amazed that someone is actually willing to admit that the 50% marriage failure statistic is a scam.
In my own circle of friends and acquaintances, I can count less than a handful who divorced.]
Experiences will vary. I personally know one family where the majority of the siblings have been divorced. The father? More than once.
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posted on
11/27/2018 1:05:35 PM PST
by
Zhang Fei
(They can have my pitbull when they pry his cold dead jaws off my ass.)
To: Drew68
Pretty much always the same “Victim Groups”
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posted on
11/27/2018 1:07:26 PM PST
by
A_Former_Democrat
("Mods/Indies/Dems/Non-voters" JOBS or MOBS? Are CRAZY DIMS REALLY who you want BACK in POWER?)
To: Drew68
I’m not surprised that Time missed the obvious point. And am surprised FReepers missed it too.
The reason why divorce rates are dropping is that fewer young people are getting married.
Living in sin. Shacking up.
To: A_Former_Democrat
Been married 30 years, together 35. Would do it all over again with her!!
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posted on
11/27/2018 1:15:33 PM PST
by
mplc51
To: cyclotic
I didnt bother to read the whole article. I am amazed that someone is actually willing to admit that the 50% marriage failure statistic is a scam.There is a fair sized subset who goes through marriages two, three or even four times or more, so I can beleive that the failure rate for marriages may be 50%, though much less for any given person or couple. My wife and I joke that we stay married because we realize that nobody else could possibly want us.
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posted on
11/27/2018 1:16:25 PM PST
by
Vigilanteman
(The politicized state destroys all aspects of civil society, human kindness and private charity.)
To: cyclotic
Just going by my own family, my Grandparents had 5 children between the 1930-1954. There was 1 divorce.
The 5 children produced 16 grandchilden between 1955-1990. So far there have been 6 divorces. So not 50%, but close. And there is still time to get that percentage up.
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posted on
11/27/2018 1:21:11 PM PST
by
CaptainK
('No collusion, no obstruction, he's a leaker')
To: Responsibility2nd
The reason why divorce rates are dropping is that fewer young people are getting married.While cohabitation is increasing, we're talking about divorce "rates" here. Fewer married people, as a group, are getting divorced. There may be fewer people getting married but those who do are increasingly staying married.
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posted on
11/27/2018 1:23:16 PM PST
by
Drew68
(Twitter @TheRealDrew68 // Click my profile page for great Russian pop music videos.)
To: Responsibility2nd
The reason why divorce rates are dropping is that fewer young people are getting married.Yes.
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posted on
11/27/2018 1:26:34 PM PST
by
Tax-chick
(Ask me about my Marine!)
To: Terry Mross
“In the 80s I did my best to stop the decline.”
Ditto!
.
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posted on
11/27/2018 1:27:56 PM PST
by
Mears
To: Tax-chick
The reason why divorce rates are dropping is that fewer young people are getting married. Yes.
Not only that but confusion reigns in arguing who as the right to do what to whom. 57 varieties make the marital chamber rather crowded.
just sayin' :>)
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posted on
11/27/2018 1:31:02 PM PST
by
Covenantor
(Men are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern. " Chesterton)
To: Covenantor
Quite.
Unfortunately, never-married couples are more likely to separate than married couples are, leaving more children than ever in scarmabled and transitory households with an increased propensity for abuse and neglect.
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posted on
11/27/2018 1:32:50 PM PST
by
Tax-chick
(Ask me about my Marine!)
To: Drew68
Experts now put your chances of uncoupling at about 39% in the U.S. That's still a high divorce rate.
And it doesn't include the couples living together outside of marriage (as per the article).
It also doesn't include the couples who might be married "on paper" but separated in reality.
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