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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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Reality of Hypergamy > Feminist Utopia. The science is settled.
1 posted on 06/27/2017 5:28:31 AM PDT by C19fan
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My college GF dumped her husband for not making money. She put him through law school and he never made a dime. She’s on her 4th husband now, her HS BF.


2 posted on 06/27/2017 5:32:33 AM PDT by AppyPappy (Don't mistake your dorm political discussions with the desires of the nation)
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repeal the 19th ...


3 posted on 06/27/2017 5:32:37 AM PDT by bankwalker (Immigration without assimilation is an invasion.)
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I had one friend whose wife divorced him once his business went bankrupt. Other friends got divorced over their careers going nowhere.

And then there are the divorces that wives initiate when their husbands assets and earnings are at peak, where the wives decide to “cash out”.


4 posted on 06/27/2017 5:38:08 AM PDT by PapaBear3625 (Big government is attractive to those who think that THEY will be in control of it.)
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student loans may be the #1 reason a husband doesnt have as much $$$


5 posted on 06/27/2017 5:38:12 AM PDT by Democrats hate too much
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Definition of incompatibility: when a husband loses his income, his wife loses her patibility.


6 posted on 06/27/2017 5:39:24 AM PDT by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam. Buy ammo.")
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It’s common knowledge that roughly half of marriages today end in divorce.

It's also false.

7 posted on 06/27/2017 5:41:03 AM PDT by Tax-chick (The Golden Rule. Just that.)
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“She put him through law school and he never made a dime.”

How could someone make it through law school without the skills to earn a living? A freakin’ paralegal can make good money.


8 posted on 06/27/2017 5:50:35 AM PDT by Beagle8U (Wake up and smell the Covfefe.)
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“For richer or for poorer”? Pfffffft!

And people wonder why guys are walking away from this?


9 posted on 06/27/2017 5:52:47 AM PDT by VanDeKoik
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“How could someone make it through law school without the skills to earn a living? A freakin’ paralegal can make good money.”

That’s what I was wondering. If he can’t get a decent job with a law degree, then there is something wrong with him. Bad attitude, expects 200 grand a year starting pay, douchebag, something that makes him unlikeable as an employee.


10 posted on 06/27/2017 5:53:55 AM PDT by tuffydoodle ("Never underestimate the total depravity of the average human being.")
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Feminism destroyed the family. They have made women think there is something better out there than managing a household and raising well-adjusted children.


11 posted on 06/27/2017 5:55:43 AM PDT by tuffydoodle ("Never underestimate the total depravity of the average human being.")
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Oh, goodie! Another thread for unhappily divorced guys to bash women! A regular on FR these days.


12 posted on 06/27/2017 5:59:08 AM PDT by miss marmelstein
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The common statistic that ‘half of marriages end in divorce’ is bogus
http://www.thisisinsider.com/what-is-the-divorce-rate-2017-2


13 posted on 06/27/2017 6:06:35 AM PDT by stars & stripes forever (Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord. Psalm 33:12)
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Perhaps our attitudes about gender roles have not changed as much as we believe, despite our rhetoric.


14 posted on 06/27/2017 6:07:38 AM PDT by HangnJudge
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a buddys wife left after he lost his “big” job. But he never recovered, was always waiting for another “big” job. So he made no $$ waiting for his ship to come in.
You have to get up off your couch at some point instead of wallowing in your own crap. Get a job, man!


15 posted on 06/27/2017 6:11:05 AM PDT by ronniesgal (still winning (and a self satisfied Pr!ck, according to WMarshal))
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Since it's from Harvard, I'm inclined to trust but verify. On that note, some additional food for thought here...

Divorce rate declines to all-time low in Kansas

16 posted on 06/27/2017 6:12:07 AM PDT by mewzilla (Was ObamaThanks surveilling John Roberts? Might explain a lot.)
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How could someone make it through law school without the skills to earn a living? A freakin’ paralegal can make good money.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Congressman Hank (Guam is going to tip over) Johnson is a lawyer.


17 posted on 06/27/2017 6:15:26 AM PDT by Graybeard58 (The Lord hath made all things for himself: yea, even the wicked for the day of evil.)
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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.

Hell, I could get an entry level job at McDonalds tomorrow and in six months, I'll be running the place and on my way to Regional manager. That's how successful people have to think.

18 posted on 06/27/2017 6:20:24 AM PDT by SamAdams76
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““She put him through law school and he never made a dime.””

But, did he pass the BAR?


19 posted on 06/27/2017 6:20:54 AM PDT by EQAndyBuzz ("“In America, we don’t worship government, we worship God.”" DJT)
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It’s also common “knowledge” that divorced women with children earn far less than men, and many are poor. So Harvard is saying women leave men who aren’t making enough money so they can make their own living earning even less?
No. My purely unscientific study says women leave men because their emotional needs are not being met, or he is abusive, which happens to be the case for every divorced woman I know, including myself. In every case the men blamed money instead of their own refusal to participate emotionally in the marriage. It’s much easier to call her a greedy gold digger than it is to face one’s own selfish immaturity.


20 posted on 06/27/2017 6:47:52 AM PDT by Wiser now (Socialism does not eliminate poverty, it guarantees it.)
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