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Harvard Study Shows the Main Reason Wives Divorce Husbands [Husbands Not Making Money] [ed]
Intellectual Takeout ^ | June 21, 2017 | Jon Miltimore

Posted on 06/27/2017 5:28:31 AM PDT by C19fan

It’s common knowledge that roughly half of marriages today end in divorce. This is up significantly from the 1960s, when about 30 percent of marriages ended in divorce within 15 years.

The underlying social and economic changes that have spurred this increase remain a bit of a mystery. But the topic was taken up in a massive 2016 study conducted by Harvard sociology professor Alexandra Killewald.

(Excerpt) Read more at intellectualtakeout.org ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: divorce; feminism; genderwars; marriage
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To: SamAdams76
That is a big mistake men often make. They get to a certain salary level, lose their job, and then they sit around waiting for an equivalent job to come along. It is much better to put yourself right back in the workforce, even at a much lower paying job. If you were truly worth what the original job paid you, you will get promoted quickly where you are or you will be able to find that better job at leisure - with at least some money coming in.

Absolutely right. I was let go from a 6 figure job. We moved to somewhere with a much lower cost of living and took a job for less than half of what I had been making. Within two years I was offered a partnership. I turned it down to start my own company because I was tired of working for other people. While I still don't make as much as I used to, I live in a house that is more than twice as large. There are much better public schools here. My wife works with me at our company, so she is emotionally and financially vested in it's success as well.

61 posted on 06/27/2017 9:45:35 AM PDT by Crusher138 ("Then conquer we must, for our cause it is just")
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To: napscoordinator
"Those debts should be paid before getting married."
-People who have graduated in the last 15 years have huge loans that are 20 year loans. They would have to all get married at 45. I think this is the reason why men are marrying later.

"When I married in 1996, both of us were debt free."
-The amount of tuition has gone up by such a high amount that its too much.

62 posted on 06/27/2017 9:48:06 AM PDT by Democrats hate too much
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To: Beagle8U

He refused to go to trial but he only made enough to keep the office open.
He’s a stockbroker now.


63 posted on 06/27/2017 9:50:56 AM PDT by AppyPappy (Don't mistake your dorm political discussions with the desires of the nation)
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To: C19fan

And the simple fact that people tell the biggest lies so easily and freely, thinking nothing of it. You swear an oath before God Almighty and a 100 guests that you will remain married till death do you part and yet, divorce is just around the corner for half of the marriages and most are in fact, initiated by women. The magnitude of such lies has become acceptable.


64 posted on 06/27/2017 10:07:50 AM PDT by Neoliberalnot (Marxism works well only with the uneducated and the unar)
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To: Georgia Girl 2; miss marmelstein

How long have you been married?


65 posted on 06/27/2017 10:09:55 AM PDT by Neoliberalnot (Marxism works well only with the uneducated and the unar)
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To: GreenHornet

So, the big lie is ok?


66 posted on 06/27/2017 10:11:28 AM PDT by Neoliberalnot (Marxism works well only with the uneducated and the unar)
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To: C19fan
It’s common knowledge

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An opening statement that is always followed by another lie.

67 posted on 06/27/2017 10:13:19 AM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: Wiser now
It’s much easier to call her a greedy gold digger than it is to face one’s own selfish immaturity.

Calling her a gold digger is as easy as claiming he didn't participate emotionally in the marriage.

Both are easier than facing one’s own selfish immaturity.

68 posted on 06/27/2017 10:24:01 AM PDT by Mr.Unique (The government, by its very nature, cannot give except what it first takes.)
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To: C19fan

They always look at the wrong end. The real question is why do couples that obviously don’t work get married. And why do people that obviously can’t handle long term commitment sign on for it over and over. That’s why divorces happen, because the marriage never should have.


69 posted on 06/27/2017 10:24:11 AM PDT by discostu (You are what you is, and that's all it is, you ain't what you're not, so see what you got.)
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To: miss marmelstein

I see the ladies getting their digs in too.

All sides turn bitter after divorce.


70 posted on 06/27/2017 10:26:23 AM PDT by Mr.Unique (The government, by its very nature, cannot give except what it first takes.)
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To: Neoliberalnot

“So, the big lie is ok?”

God will sort it out in the end.


71 posted on 06/27/2017 10:30:52 AM PDT by alternatives? (Why have an army if there are no borders?)
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To: AppyPappy

Sooo...not a go-get er.


72 posted on 06/27/2017 10:33:44 AM PDT by Beagle8U (Wake up and smell the Covfefe.)
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To: Neoliberalnot

25 blessed years. The best thing I’ve ever done in my misspent youth and middle years!


73 posted on 06/27/2017 10:37:49 AM PDT by miss marmelstein
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To: Mr.Unique

It’s about time the ladies got their digs in. This forum has way too many of these threads in which women are demonized by bitter, lonely guys.


74 posted on 06/27/2017 10:39:20 AM PDT by miss marmelstein
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To: hawg-farmer - FR..October 1998

I’m angry? Hah! The woman-haters are all over FR these days - your post alone is emblematic of the problem here.

Maybe some of you guys suck in bed. Every think of that angle?


75 posted on 06/27/2017 10:42:16 AM PDT by miss marmelstein
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To: Beagle8U

“How could someone make it through law school without the skills to earn a living?”

He probably has the skills. Maybe he’s just lazy. Ya gotta wanna.


76 posted on 06/27/2017 10:43:33 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam ("Negative people make healthy people sick." - Roger Ailes)
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To: Beagle8U

Apparently you can’t live on house closings and documents. The real money is in trial work.

She’s been married 4 times and I can’t believe the current guy married her because he dated her for years in HS/college. She’s impossible to satisfy.
Hence the subject of this tread.


77 posted on 06/27/2017 10:46:39 AM PDT by AppyPappy (Don't mistake your dorm political discussions with the desires of the nation)
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To: miss marmelstein

“Maybe some of you guys suck in bed. Every think of that angle?”

That’s $50 extra, sweetie.


78 posted on 06/27/2017 10:47:49 AM PDT by AppyPappy (Don't mistake your dorm political discussions with the desires of the nation)
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To: tuffydoodle

“Feminism destroyed the family.”

Yup. It’s not the wife’s job to provide for the family. When the feminist movement jumbled up the proper roles of a household, everybody suffered - and it’s still happening.


79 posted on 06/27/2017 10:48:05 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam ("Negative people make healthy people sick." - Roger Ailes)
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To: miss marmelstein

“Maybe some of you guys suck in bed.”

Or their wives didn’t?


80 posted on 06/27/2017 10:50:40 AM PDT by Beagle8U (Wake up and smell the Covfefe.)
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