How Divorce Lost Its Cachet - NYTimes.com

InfinitelyThirsting · 2011-06-22T18:14:00+00:00

In a 2008 survey, only 17 percent of college-educated Americans agreed with the statement, “Marriage has not worked out for most people I know,” compared with 58 percent among the less educated.

and

Several divorced women suggested that the news of their marital unraveling seemed to unnerve other couples in their social circles, prompting unease about their own marriages. (That anxiety may not be entirely unfounded. One study out of Harvard, Brown and the University of California, San Diego, last year found that divorce actually is contagious: when close friends break up, the odds of a marital split among their friends increase by 75 percent.)

That sheds a lot of interesting light on the people who say that most of the people they know who got married got divorced--if you know a divorced couple, you're likely to know more. And the education stat kind of firms up my experiences, that it's all about where you are and the kind of people you hang out with that colors your views on stuff.

Like I've repeated, the "50%" stat is highly misleading. Divorce rates have been solidly dropping since the eighties, so it's a whole different world now, because marriage has been changing. People are waiting longer, as they should, and being smarter about it. I like that a lot better than just abandoning the concept.

kloo2yoo · 2011-06-22T16:25:09+00:00

“It could be that among college-educated couples, the men are behaving better and the wives aren’t as interested in getting out,” said Andrew Hacker, a professor emeritus at Queens College who has written frequently about social currents. “Guys are doing more cooking, and they’re not bad at it!”

maybe men aren't so bad when properly trained!

Guy51234 · 2011-06-22T23:36:27+00:00

And here:

"number of persons never marrying has increased (Ruggles 1997; Goldstein 1999; Goldstein and Kenney 2001; Kreider 2005; Harrington Meyer, Wolf, and Himes 2006). Evidence also indicates that the remarriage rate has decreased, and dissolution of second marriages has risen (Cherlin 1992; Norton and Miller 1992). Put together, these trends suggest that a rising share of unmarried people will be entering retirement age in the near future.1"

http://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/ssb/v67n2/v67n2p25.html

Guy51234 · 2011-06-22T23:29:10+00:00

The article is an other liberal NY celebration of divorce.

And divorce rates are dropping because men are no longer marrying. The rate of never married women is skyrocketing then were forced fed "pro" marriage articles like this that are neither pro marriage nor antidivorce.

But men, even men here don't want to learn.

The smell of the stank taco is too strong. Use the force MGTOW, don't get married....most men are learning.

http://pewsocialtrends.org/2010/06/25/childlessness-up-among-all-women-down-among-women-with-advanced-degrees/

Title	How Divorce Lost Its Cachet - NYTimes.com
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Date	June 22, 2011 3:43 PM UTC (15 years ago)
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