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In Reply to: RE: RGA - Interpreting the statistics posted by jult52 on April 11, 2011 at 09:50:51
I am sorry but your link does not make sense. This is not hard. 10 marriages - ten years later 4 out of the ten marriages end in divorce. The statistics are not difficult.
The link you provided "invents" an argument.
"It all began when the Census Bureau noted that during one year, there
were 2.4 million marriages and 1.2 million divorces. Someone did the
math without calculating the 54 million marriages already in existence,
and presto, a ridiculous but quotable statistic was born."
NOWHERE did this occur. These studies and records go back a hundred years and it was not done during ONE year like the above quote claims. Whatever hack wrote this is trying to subvert the truth. Oh wait - it's a Christian publication - real bastions of science, reason, and math they are LOL
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publication Time magazine: "Since the 1970s, when more women started going to college and delaying marriage, "marital stability appears to be improving each decade," she writes. For example, about 23% of college graduates who married in the '70s split within 10 years. For those who wed in the '90s, the rate dropped to 16%."
"Since the 1970s, when more women started going to college and delaying marriage, "marital stability appears to be improving each decade," she writes. For example, about 23% of college graduates who married in the '70s split within 10 years. For those who wed in the '90s, the rate dropped to 16%."
But: "Penn State sociologist Paul Amato, in a thorough new report on interpreting divorce data, writes that the half-of-all-marriages-end-badly figure still "appears to be reasonably accurate."
I am not sure you're disagreeing with what I posted. In my post I noted that divorce rates among educated people with a 4 year degree tend to have much lower divorce rates. OTOH people with 4 year degrees are in the minority of the total of those people getting married. The divorce rate is improving in this subset of people according to Time magazine and that makes sense to the extent that educated people probably are a little "smarter" on average than those who are not. That means they tend to make better choices and choose their partners a little more wisely and probably have something more to talk about than "honey get me another brew while I watch the football game."
Stats are always somewhat difficult because I don't see them as any sort of predictor. My parents were married 35 years and would still be if my dad hadn't smoked 2 packs a day the whole time.
I'm not really against marriage - if it works great but frankly I get tired of vanilla ice cream everyday and I don't think I could listen to just one artist my whole life. Of course not - I like to try lots of Baskin Robins flavors - I like many artists. And I LOVE women - lots of women - I hope to love as many of them as I can :-)
LMAO, great post!
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