Well, consider, about 50 years ago almost every child was raised by married parents, today about half are. Having so many people with no lived experience means lower cultural forces behind asking them to participate in an expensive party, even though marriage is so good for raising children (which used to be the purpose of marriage).
I don't understand what you are trying to say. Lived experience? Explain.
If most couples you know are just cohabitating, the cultural forces to have a public ceremony decrease.
Except many couples meet in school, where they'd be exposed to a disproportionate number of potential spouses within their own field of study, and maybe to a lesser extent others in related programs within the same college. Which would also be skewed by things like length of study and personality types attracted to particular interests. Eg, Doctors and lawyers often don't want to get married until after school, at wh…
We had one woman in my graduating comp-sci class. One. And she had been dating someone seriously for a few years. We guys had better luck dating Early Childhood Education majors, which is supported by their chart.
Yes, I knew my wife before she went into teaching but it is a good match!
A few interesting ones in there, such as Dentists, who other than other dentists, most often marry secretaries and assistants.
I wonder if it’s the opposite. From my experience dentists tend to run their own practice or partner with one or two other dentists. Could it just make sense for the spouse to run the financial / administrative portion of the small business?
I was disappointed they didn't include "homemaker" or "unemployed" so you could see which professions supported a family by themselves.
I think you'd see a lot of professions of people who culturally value a homemaker, not anything about the highest paying careers. My guess is that the list you describe would be dominated by the trades, trucking, and small business ownership.
At the very least, it speaks to your personal cultural views of the trades, trucking, and small business ownership!
I married a graphic designer, much like our ur out our personalities complimented each other fairly well so we could challenge and empower eachother, and had just enough overlap that we could relate on the nerdy things that counted.
I clicked random for a while, just waiting to find a job with an usually high correlation with any other job. Pharmacist is unusually highly correlated with Pharmacist. Edit: Same with Lodging managers, high correlation with Lodging managers.
Not apparent in the original chart, but in the follow-on bubble chart there seems to be a weirdly strong connection between fire inspectors and pumping station operators.
Marriage is actually a great financial choice for most people. If marriage rates are dropping, I'd blame our culture — the financial incentives are clearly there.
Young people get pretty bombarded by divorce horror stories - especially from pop culture. Most divorces don't go to a court and a large number are resolved entirely internally and only seek professional help for the finalization of the agreement... but there are the attention grabbing headlines of someone being left with only the shirt on his back (and like 20 mil in options) on the far side of a really bad divorce.…
There have always been divorce horror stories. The systemic reasons for declining marriage rates are mostly financial. The American middle class has seen declining incomes for the past generation or so, with rising student loan payments, unaffordable housing, expensive childcare etc. You have to be making a lot of income to seriously consider having children.
I think you'd see a lot of professions of people who culturally value a homemaker, not anything about the highest paying careers. My guess is that the list you describe would be dominated by the trades, trucking, and small business ownership.
At the very least, it speaks to your personal cultural views of the trades, trucking, and small business ownership!
Observations, really. I might add religious clergy to the list as well.