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All you hear these days about divorce is that the rates are sky-high and still growing. Reality paints a different picture, however. While divorce rates for those between 35 and 44 without college degrees or just “some college” have doubled since 1980, the rates for those with college degrees in the same age range have stayed pretty much the same.
What is true, however, is that marriage rates in general are plummeting regardless of education or age. People with a high school education or less are dramatically less likely to get married, especially before they are 35 years old, and more people than ever are waiting until they are in their mid-30s to tie the knot, southern girls be damned.
So, while our generation and the generation between us and our parents’ seem to be waiting much longer to get married, those among us who are more educated and affluent are also not anywhere near as likely to end those marriages altogether. In other words, there’s hope for us yet.
[via FiveThirtyEight]
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@RogerSterlingUS
I’m not trying to downplay love and emotion here, but once you reach a certain level of affluence, the whole “cheaper to keep her” argument gains a lot of validity.
That’s because we’re intelligent enough to pick a good spouse. That 19yr old high school dropout flipping burgers with 2 kids before marriage, well… not so much.
Actually, the stats say more than the theoretical loser you described simply isn’t getting married, period.
The slow march to extinction of western civilization. Look at the birth rates of Europe if you want to see where the US will be in about 50 years.