[cyclotic]

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.

[Drew68]

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.

[Kalamata]

>>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....

[Zhang Fei]

[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.]

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Experiences will vary. I personally know one family where the majority of the siblings have been divorced. The father? More than once.

[Vigilanteman]

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.

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.

[CaptainK]

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.

[elpadre]

I have 15 nephews and nieces all married with children and only one divorced and re-married. He was career military and spent too much time on far away assignments.

[forgotten man]

I have always thought that the “50% of all marriages end in divorce” is bogus. I always hear “50%”, I never hear 46% or 52.1%. One persons says 50% and the whole news media repeats it over and over again.

[DoodleBob]

Data trump bad reporting every day.

Despite what the media says, America remains an nation of married folks. Using the IRS’ SOI data, 54 million filers in 2014 out of 149 million filers were Married filing jointly, with about 29 million being married filing single. That’s a whole lot of married people.

The divorce rate is not 50% - this is one of the most abused statistics out there...the divorce rate is NOT the quotient of annual marriages and divorces...the divorce rate is #of annual divorces divided by number of marriages at the beginning of the year.

While the 2014 divorce total of 814k excludes data for California, Georgia, Hawaii, Indiana, and Minnesota, let’s be conservative and gross up 814k by 20%/close to the percentage of electoral votes those states represent...about one million divorces versus about 68.5 million marriages (54 million married filing jointly couples plus 29/2 million married filing single) is 1.5% divorce rate. BOOM!

I bet the numbers in Europe are worse...they are shacking up much more...and their continent is crumbling.

No, the NUMERIC TRUTH is Americans love marriage, love the institution of marriage, and the shacking up thing is not as well-loved (though it isn popular). Hell, even Candice Bergen agreed with the VP.

[The Truth Will Make You Free]

The TRUTHFUL statistic — married and never divorced — is nowhere to be found.