And another one bites the dust...

[Speaker to Animals]

Exactly a guy! Free love was great.....for the men.

Not really even then. Trust me. Single life for Gen X now sucks. I don't have any intention of marrying up with a busted out slut. Nor can I marry these millennial chicks because they are so childlike in mentality (probably just an age difference, honestly, since our women were pretty dingbat at that age too).

Ideally, we get married early and have children early. We stay married until one person dies. That will maximize happiness and security. The secular world has the opposite opinion, however.

50% divorce rate does not support your theory.

LOL, what? It doesn't have anything to do with the post you just quoted.

[SuburbanFarmer]

Not really even then. Trust me. Single life for Gen X now sucks. I don't have any intention of marrying up with a busted out slut. Nor can I marry these millennial chicks because they are so childlike in mentality (probably just an age difference, honestly, since our women were pretty dingbat at that age too).

Ideally, we get married early and have children early. We stay married until one person dies. That will maximize happiness and security. The secular world has the opposite opinion, however.

50% divorce rate does not support your theory.

LOL, what? It doesn't have anything to do with the post you just quoted.

Was referring to this part:

Ideally, we get married early and have children early. We stay married until one person dies. That will maximize happiness and security.

[Speaker to Animals]

50% divorce rate does not support your theory.

LOL, what? It doesn't have anything to do with the post you just quoted.

Was referring to this part:

Ideally, we get married early and have children early. We stay married until one person dies. That will maximize happiness and security.

Does not support that statement, how?

Do you see these women blowing up marriages and becoming single mothers only to become happier? Most of the time, the answer is a definitive no. They fuck their lives up big time. From what I see and have experienced, the person who blows it up for selfish reasons (and it's most often the woman since the laws provide immediate financial incentives for them to do so whereas men face longterm financial costs) ends up miserable. Karma actually does seem to come into play very often. Not always, but often.

[Okeefenokee]

Exactly a guy! Free love was great.....for the men.

Not really even then. Trust me. Single life for Gen X now sucks. I don't have any intention of marrying up with a busted out slut. Nor can I marry these millennial chicks because they are so childlike in mentality (probably just an age difference, honestly, since our women were pretty dingbat at that age too).

Ideally, we get married early and have children early. We stay married until one person dies. That will maximize happiness and security. The secular world has the opposite opinion, however.

50% divorce rate does not support your theory.

Fake news.

The “grim statistic” that 50 percent of marriages are destined to end in divorce has been repeated for years, “but that bleak prognosis doesn’t apply to most couples getting married today or even most of those who married in the last few decades,” according to Parker-Pope. The problem, she adds, lies at least partly in how divorce rates tend to be calculated.
http://www.foryourmarriage.org/the-trut ... tatistics/

We’ve all heard that 50 percent of marriages in the U.S. end in divorce.

And while that disheartening stat continues to get tossed around, the divorce rate isn’t really at 50 percent — and it isn’t rising either. In fact, a new piece in the New York Times’ data blog Upshot suggests that the divorce rate has actually been dropping for some time now. Looking at the numbers, the Times suggests the high divorce rate of the late 1970s and early 1980s may have just been a “historical anomaly,” rather than a trend.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/12/ ... 56956.html

But here is the thing: It is no longer true that the divorce rate is rising, or that half of all marriages end in divorce. It has not been for some time. Even though social scientists have tried to debunk those myths, somehow the conventional wisdom has held.

Despite hand-wringing about the institution of marriage, marriages in this country are stronger today than they have been in a long time. The divorce rate peaked in the 1970s and early 1980s and has been declining for the three decades since.
https://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/02/upsh ... 93&gwt=pay

So if the 50 percent rule is just an urban legend, where did it come from? That number is actually a projection based on previous research that dates back to the 1970s, when no-fault divorce was legalized and suddenly the divorce rate started to skyrocket, Feldhahn says. If the divorce rate continued to climb, it may have reached 50 percent, but it actually hit a peak around 1980 and has slowly started to decline since then. "The divorce rates have continued to fall and it's continued to get better and better," says Feldhahn, "So why are we still projecting the same divorce rate we were in 1980?"
https://www.womenshealthmag.com/relatio ... statistics

[GloryofGreece]

So whats the rate now?

[Okeefenokee]

Doesn't look like there's any way to get it dialed in. Seems to vary pretty much from demo to demo. Definition of what a divorce rate is varies as well.

The old 50% number was just a projected number made up fifty something years ago based on the trend in one year, that didn't even have reliable data to back it up, and it was the projection of where it would be in the 80s, not today.

It was total bullshit from start.

[SuburbanFarmer]

Not really even then. Trust me. Single life for Gen X now sucks. I don't have any intention of marrying up with a busted out slut. Nor can I marry these millennial chicks because they are so childlike in mentality (probably just an age difference, honestly, since our women were pretty dingbat at that age too).

Ideally, we get married early and have children early. We stay married until one person dies. That will maximize happiness and security. The secular world has the opposite opinion, however.

50% divorce rate does not support your theory.

Fake news.

The “grim statistic” that 50 percent of marriages are destined to end in divorce has been repeated for years, “but that bleak prognosis doesn’t apply to most couples getting married today or even most of those who married in the last few decades,” according to Parker-Pope. The problem, she adds, lies at least partly in how divorce rates tend to be calculated.
http://www.foryourmarriage.org/the-trut ... tatistics/

We’ve all heard that 50 percent of marriages in the U.S. end in divorce.

And while that disheartening stat continues to get tossed around, the divorce rate isn’t really at 50 percent — and it isn’t rising either. In fact, a new piece in the New York Times’ data blog Upshot suggests that the divorce rate has actually been dropping for some time now. Looking at the numbers, the Times suggests the high divorce rate of the late 1970s and early 1980s may have just been a “historical anomaly,” rather than a trend.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/12/ ... 56956.html

But here is the thing: It is no longer true that the divorce rate is rising, or that half of all marriages end in divorce. It has not been for some time. Even though social scientists have tried to debunk those myths, somehow the conventional wisdom has held.

Despite hand-wringing about the institution of marriage, marriages in this country are stronger today than they have been in a long time. The divorce rate peaked in the 1970s and early 1980s and has been declining for the three decades since.
https://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/02/upsh ... 93&gwt=pay

So if the 50 percent rule is just an urban legend, where did it come from? That number is actually a projection based on previous research that dates back to the 1970s, when no-fault divorce was legalized and suddenly the divorce rate started to skyrocket, Feldhahn says. If the divorce rate continued to climb, it may have reached 50 percent, but it actually hit a peak around 1980 and has slowly started to decline since then. "The divorce rates have continued to fall and it's continued to get better and better," says Feldhahn, "So why are we still projecting the same divorce rate we were in 1980?"
https://www.womenshealthmag.com/relatio ... statistics

Interest group, HuffPo, NYT, and Women's Health become reliable sources, when the topic favors your argument. Interesting.

[Okeefenokee]

Pew,

https://www.google.com/amp/www.pewresea ... n/%3famp=1

[DBTrek]

[clubgop]

50% divorce rate does not support your theory.

Fake news.

The “grim statistic” that 50 percent of marriages are destined to end in divorce has been repeated for years, “but that bleak prognosis doesn’t apply to most couples getting married today or even most of those who married in the last few decades,” according to Parker-Pope. The problem, she adds, lies at least partly in how divorce rates tend to be calculated.
http://www.foryourmarriage.org/the-trut ... tatistics/

We’ve all heard that 50 percent of marriages in the U.S. end in divorce.

And while that disheartening stat continues to get tossed around, the divorce rate isn’t really at 50 percent — and it isn’t rising either. In fact, a new piece in the New York Times’ data blog Upshot suggests that the divorce rate has actually been dropping for some time now. Looking at the numbers, the Times suggests the high divorce rate of the late 1970s and early 1980s may have just been a “historical anomaly,” rather than a trend.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/12/ ... 56956.html

But here is the thing: It is no longer true that the divorce rate is rising, or that half of all marriages end in divorce. It has not been for some time. Even though social scientists have tried to debunk those myths, somehow the conventional wisdom has held.

Despite hand-wringing about the institution of marriage, marriages in this country are stronger today than they have been in a long time. The divorce rate peaked in the 1970s and early 1980s and has been declining for the three decades since.
https://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/02/upsh ... 93&gwt=pay

So if the 50 percent rule is just an urban legend, where did it come from? That number is actually a projection based on previous research that dates back to the 1970s, when no-fault divorce was legalized and suddenly the divorce rate started to skyrocket, Feldhahn says. If the divorce rate continued to climb, it may have reached 50 percent, but it actually hit a peak around 1980 and has slowly started to decline since then. "The divorce rates have continued to fall and it's continued to get better and better," says Feldhahn, "So why are we still projecting the same divorce rate we were in 1980?"
https://www.womenshealthmag.com/relatio ... statistics

Interest group, HuffPo, NYT, and Women's Health become reliable sources, when the topic favors your argument. Interesting.

What was your source? Your dirty dick? Just as a point of stats this is suspect. One marriage lasting 50 years is one data point vs a bunch of Hollywood marriages being a bunch of data points. First time marriages between both partners works out pretty while those that get divorced ones are more likely to get divorced again.