“”Among college-educated couples, the percentage of divorces initiated by wives is a whopping 90 percent.”
Here in Californicator land, with the moralities of Follywood and the Frisco area coupled with no fault divorce, his 90% stat is probably on the low side.
We can’t think of one divorce started by the guys in the 30+ years of marriage group. All of the women initiated divorces came from women, who attended college at least 2 years or more.
A younger female relative in her 40s, lives in the E Bay Area. She said a common discussion initiated by women in her neighborhood and school and other social circles is how most other women plan to leave their husbands when the last kid is in or finishes college. Most if not all of the women are college grads.
What we have seen and are seeing is 180 degrees from the husband leaving his wife in his late 40’s-to 50’s.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2894790/posts?page=63#63
Same here. I was starting to get paranoid--over the past six or so months, five of my friends, all in long-term marriages, and all but one 50+ have told me that their wives had asked for divorces.
All of them claimed that they never saw it coming.
Which is pretty much what the study cited seems to be saying: since 1990, the rate of divorce among those over 50 has doubled. What's strange is that this age cohort (my own) hasn't really internalized some of the revisions to family law: with my group of friends, the woman has expected to keep the house, and get some form of spousal support, regardless of her own earning potential. Needless to say, it's not working out that way for some of them who do have good jobs, and in particular with some guys who've taken an earnings hit over the past couple of years.