Isn't a millennial getting married today only 18 years old? A career established person might have been born in 1980 or earlier.
People born in 1980 are considered millennials.
Millennials Are Causing the U.S. Divorce Rate to Plummet
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#62Isn't a millennial getting married today only 18 years old? A career established person might have been born in 1980 or earlier.
Millennials are late 20s maybe even early 30s as upper bound. (My generation). We all get grouped and I see milenials between 22-32. That’s my intuitive feel for it anyway. I don’t know the actual society study on it. I know a lot in my circles getting married now too. Albeit it feels way later then our parents (many had kids when 19-21).
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#63Isn't a millennial getting married today only 18 years old? A career established person might have been born in 1980 or earlier.
Millennials were born in the 80s and 90s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennials#Date_and_age_range...
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#64If people are getting married later, maybe they are just getting divorced later? I wonder what the change is for divorce after X amount of years of marriage.
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#65It might be because people are getting married and having children later. I find that most people that I know that had parents that got divorced, it happened when their kids were in their mid to late teens. People now getting married at older ages and having kids later might get divorced now outside the 45 year old window.
Or you could take a more cynical view: Women that marry in their late 20s and have kids in their 30s aren't really thrilled with their dating prospects when they're fast approaching 40 and have a kid. Men 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 c…
Or a more positive view: more mature people are better able to identify partnerships that can endure. Or people who are older are more fixed and less likely to grow away from their partners. Or more time affords more opportunity to de-risk potential partners so social sorting has more time to “work”. Etc etc etc. “just so”
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#66Isn't a millennial getting married today only 18 years old? A career established person might have been born in 1980 or earlier.
Millennials are late 20s maybe even early 30s as upper bound. (My generation). We all get grouped and I see milenials between 22-32. That’s my intuitive feel for it anyway. I don’t know the actual society study on it. I know a lot in my circles getting married now too. Albeit it feels way later then our parents (many had kids when 19-21).
Millenials are, depending on definition, everyone up to the 1980 cohort. So millenials include mid-to-late-30s.
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#67Isn't a millennial getting married today only 18 years old? A career established person might have been born in 1980 or earlier.
Anyone born between 1981 and 1996 (ages 22 to 37 in 2018) is considered a Millennial according to Pew Research.
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#68Take a step back. Focus your attention on the 2nd graph and look at the 18-34 age range line. This is and always has been low. There is literally a 1%-2% drop. So you can't actually "blame" millennials on the US divorce rate plummeting, let alone by 8%. The article is also already admitting that the rate is dropping for ALL age groups ranges (read - people that are NOT millennials) for the past 10-15 years.
So if you look at that graph and look at the title of the article, you should realize that the overall trend is dropping, and it's not because of millennials. If anything that is an anecdotal feeling and the writer of this article is suggesting that as the reason, which is again, not backed up by the data.
Edit: take out the yell words ;)
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#69Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
do that in a state like California, and you are considered married, regardless of a piece of paper being signed or not.
According to Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common-law_marriage_in_the_Uni..., particularly https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common-law_marriage_in_the_Uni...), California explicitly doesn't allow common-law marriages (to which you seem implicitly to be referring); and, anyway, it seems that a common-law marriage must be explicitly consented to, rather than being a state that develops involuntarily (based on a skim of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common-law_marriage_in_the_Uni... ; for example, of Colorado, "The elements of a common-law marriage are, with respect to both spouses: (1) holding themselves out as husband and wife; (2) consenting to the marriage; (3) cohabitation; and (4) having the reputation in the community as being married").
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#70Earlier quoted context omitted.
> 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?
I think what I was responding to was the implied causal connection between the lack of an "institution" of marriage causing instability in cohabitating adults.
The article and linked research don't make that assertion.