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Millennials Are Causing the U.S. Divorce Rate to Plummet

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Re: Millennials Are Causing the U.S. Divorce Rate to Plummet

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Post by jandrese »

kidsnow wrote: post #15
52-6F-62 wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A good friend of mine is getting divorced soon as well. Another old friend recently divorced. My current relationship has outlasted almost everyone I know. We're not married. I have no explanation for any of it.

It's because you don't take it for granted, so you probably work harder at it. There was a couple once that would get together every Thursday or something and see if they wanted to continue another week. I think they did this for like 45 years.

The bottom of the article says that non-married couples with kids are less stable than married couples with kids. It implies that couples that would have gotten divorced are instead not getting married in the first place, which creates more situations where a single mother is raising children with no support from the father.

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Post by klank »

jandrese wrote: post #14
Sharlin wrote: post #2

Another thing millennials are killing?

The bottom of the article says that they are also getting married less. Basically, back when the Baby Boomers were young it was a major source of shame to have sex outside of marriage for a lot of people, so they got married early and then discovered that it wasn't a good match. Lucky for them the divorce option was available at least. These days kids are much more free to experiment before they tie the knot and aren…

> The downside is that when they do have kids outside of marriage it's a worse situation as the families are less stable without the institution holding them together.

Do you have any data backing up this assertion?

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Post by dev_dull »

oh_sigh wrote: post #3

Yes, it is hard to get divorced if you don't get married in the first place(or, later in life). I'm curious whether the age-controlled divorce rate is higher or lower for millenials.

Millennials I know that are now in their 30s have already been “married” in name 1 or 2 times. We just don’t make it official like previous generations did because of cultural pressures.

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Post by jandrese »

klank wrote: post #22
jandrese wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The bottom of the article says that they are also getting married less. Basically, back when the Baby Boomers were young it was a major source of shame to have sex outside of marriage for a lot of people, so they got married early and then discovered that it wasn't a good match. Lucky for them the divorce option was available at least. These days kids are much more free to experiment before they tie the knot and aren…

> The downside is that when they do have kids outside of marriage it's a worse situation as the families are less stable without the institution holding them together. Do you have any data backing up this assertion?

I don't, but it is at the bottom of the article so maybe the author can back it up?

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Post by thaumasiotes »

sidstling wrote: post #9

I wonder how much cost plays in, I mean, my fiancée and I are adult middle class millennials and we’ve been saving for two years to have a wedding, and we’re planning a relatively cheap one.

> we’ve been saving for two years to have a wedding, and we’re planning a relatively cheap one

The second part here is in conflict with the first part...

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Post by draw_down »

thaumasiotes wrote: post #27
sidstling wrote: post #9

I wonder how much cost plays in, I mean, my fiancée and I are adult middle class millennials and we’ve been saving for two years to have a wedding, and we’re planning a relatively cheap one.

> we’ve been saving for two years to have a wedding, and we’re planning a relatively cheap one The second part here is in conflict with the first part...

No it isn't

Re: Millennials Are Causing the U.S. Divorce Rate to Plummet

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Post by rhacker »

randyrand wrote: post #26

"Plummet' == 8%? Seems like the title is exaggerating a bit egregiously.

Actually beyond that it's a pretty awful study. The graph is showing rates levelling off for all groups. It makes sense for people that are old to have been divorced. The actual rate of divorce for people that are 18-34 right now isn't going to be known until they are 55-70. The data is already showing that they will have a lower rate that today's 55-70, but again, to blame the divorce rate drop on the 18-34 age range when it's across the board, is kinda ridiculous. If you look at the graph of the 18-34 chart going back to 1980 it's pretty much bouncing up and down from 11-13 percent consistently.
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