Not accurately restated. 2/3’s of ALL divorces are initiated by the woman. In college educated couples the filing rate is 90% female.
It’s a farce to think that the filer is the cause of divorce however. If your spouse has abandoned the family for another person, drugs, alcohol or been sent to jail for a very long time (and is guilty as hell), you are very likely to be the one filing because they are busy with their new lifestyle. Who files first does not mean they are at fault.
It’s like people forgot that before no fault divorce 100% of the filers were the wronged spouse.
You really think a college educated divorcer is more likely to have a spouse on drugs/alcohol than someone with HS degree or less? You really think a high earning college educated college male is going to abandon the family and be forced to pay even more alimony and child support than otherwise? While the first filer is of course not always at fault, the 90% stat vs the rest of the country as as whole (which look be closer to 50/50 m:f ratio) is eye-opening.
Good points; in the end, as long as women more than men benefit from divorce (in most cases) marriage will be undesirable to young men.
Attempts to rectify this by paying women more than men simply create a group of men unable to support a family; not exactly incentive to marry there, either. The gender gap in pay is a myth, and since women have been 60% of college classes for decades now, it is no mystery why young men don’t see themselves as providers for families. Denying them opportunity denies the women spouses.