Posted on 11/27/2018 12:52:36 PM PST by Drew68
Have you heard that statistic that half of all marriages will end in divorce? It’s wrong. Even if that many marriages ever did disintegrate at one point, they don’t now. Divorce is on the decline and has been since the 1980s in America (when that 50% divorce statistic took hold). Experts now put your chances of uncoupling at about 39% in the U.S. This sounds like such promising news. Families are sticking together! But in practice, this does not mean more people are living happily ever after.
Census figures released on Nov. 14 show that the median age at first marriage in the U.S. is now nearly 30 for men and 28 for women, up from 27 and 25 in 2003. This does not mean that Millennials have stopped living with someone they fancy, though. Cohabiting is becoming a norm in most Westernized countries. In 2018, 15% of folks ages 25 to 34 lived with an unmarried partner, up from 12% a decade earlier. More Americans under 25 cohabit with a partner (9%) than are married to one (7%). Two decades ago, those figures weren’t even close: 5% were cohabiting and 14% were married.
The drop in divorce statistics seems to be, in large part, due to the much-maligned Millennials making their marital vows stick far more often. One recent study says that, compared to their 2008 counterparts, young people in 2016 were 18% less likely to get divorced. That study has not been peer-reviewed but is echoed by the trend in the U.K., which keeps much more robust divorce data. Young Brits’ marriages are 27% more likely to make it through their first decade — the prime divorcing years — than those who got hitched in the ’80s.
(Excerpt) Read more at time.com ...
If I would have shot my ex when I first wanted, I’d have been out by now.
Good is never good to a leftist.
Good news.
Read “Primal Loss” by Leila Miller — the adult children of divorce speak out!
Kellyanne Conway is a Catholic. I don’t think that will happen.
The vast majority of Millennials have experienced firsthand the "joys" of having divorced parents and being latchkey kids.
They hated it.
It’s not just fewer young people getting married, living in sin, shacking up. I know senior women shacking up because they don’t want to give up their deceased husband’s military pension, retirement benefits, etc.
Marry the right one. Stay married.
Recalling a story of Churchill. Someone asked him who he would be if he could die and start over as another person. He said in such a case he would like to be Mrs Churchill’s second husband.
The TRUTHFUL statistic — married and never divorced — is nowhere to be found.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.