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

Post by EADGBE » Tue, Sep 25, 2018, 7:26 PM UTC

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nimbius wrote: post #38

speaking as a millennial there is a big reason Marriage is overtaking divorce. Health insurance. Most of us dont have jobs that afford us competent healthcare. Seriously, thank the gig economy. Affordable Care Act providers either do not exist in some states or are overpriced/worthless for what they do cover. There are still roughly 25 states that have not expanded medicare either. Getting married is a quick and simp…

Aye, I have a handful of American friends who have married another friend simply to access/combine one-another's health benefits. That doesn't seem to happen in Canada...

Post by EADGBE » Tue, Sep 25, 2018, 7:27 PM UTC

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I'm not sure. This is at odds w/ some parts of the article near the end claiming marriage as a status symbol, specifically: > Fewer people are getting married [...] Many poorer and less educated Americans are opting not to get married at all Granted the article is not necessarily any more accurate. My pet theory is lack of societal compulsion.

I remember a Howard Stern interview (back in 2005-6?) with Paul McCartney where Howard asked if Paul was making his new wife sign a pre-nup. He wasn't. His response was "A pre-nup for someone who's worth half a billion dollars doesn't make sense. You'll live fine on a quarter billion dollars. It's the guy who's only worth $80k that should be getting a pre-nup." I definitely put off marriage (I'm on the youngest side…

Post by b_tterc_p » Tue, Sep 25, 2018, 7:31 PM UTC

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Statistically though, married people have more money. "married women can pay as much as $1 million less than their single counterparts over a lifetime" "married men between 28 and 30 years old earn around $15,900 more a year in individual income compared to their single counterparts, while married men between 44 and 46 years old make $18,800 more than single men of the same ages" + other benefits https://www.business…

Question is correlation though. Is it likelier for people who are married (perhaps correlating with more responsible) to hold better positions? Or have higher pressure to make more money and thus act on that? Also, in US and Canada, there are significant tax benefits to being married.

Post by pmiller2 » Tue, Sep 25, 2018, 7:32 PM UTC

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I think about this from time-to-time. My partner and I know we couldn't afford children now, though she's constantly ..."noticing the clock ticking". I'd like children some day. But what makes me snicker is it sounds exactly like the beginning of Idiocracy.

And Federal Reserve officials laugh when people suggest their policies and currency debasement causes declining birth rates. Their inflationary policies and increasing cost to live absolutely affect the ability and willingness of people to have children.

Post by rmdashrfroot » Tue, Sep 25, 2018, 7:33 PM UTC

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Child support payments are not the cause of women's financial woes after divorce, but you can absolutely look at the same general sentence: "Women that marry in their late 20s and have kids in their 30s don't like the idea of living in a crappy apartment, driving a 15yo Civic and eating rice and beans well into their 50s because they're getting bent over for" being women who had kids, often put their careers on the b…

> often put their careers on the back burner, often were not aware of financial decision-making within the marriage, & got divorced without the ability to make as much money. It's interesting how some paint this picture of mothers who decided to be homemakers as women who are just too dumb to care the correct amount about climbing the career lader.