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Divorce rates are 1 in 2 in the U.S.

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science is too good. long time ago we didn't live long enough to get sick of each other. you'd be married for life sure, but your wife would probably die in childbirth, and then you'd remarry for life again😉
 
Originally posted by: Ryan
And people think gays are ruining the "sanctity of marriage" :roll: Straight people can't even get it right - what makes them think they know how to run the institution?
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LOL...That what I always thought when people were ragging on gay marriage. "It ruins the sanctity of marriage". First of all...WTF does that even mean? How can Jim and Bob getting married ruin your marriage? Second of all, you can't sink a sunken ship. Its already at the bottom of the fvcking ocean.
 
well, parents get divorced, you end up with latch-key kids never learning the concept of family, and missing out on vital things in life, this generation grows up, and is now in their 20's and early 30's.....and look at it...it's a f'ing mess.
 
Originally posted by: Mo0o
As long as children aren't involved i coudln't care less. But if a couple is willing to have kids i think they should make the sacrifice and try to keep teh marriage together.
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QFT. You married him/her for better or for worse.
Hell, even Al Bundy was man enough to stick through it 😛

 
Well...I'm about to be married this year. I don't think either of us will ever give up on each other.... Too many people forget that relationships take work to maintain....and it's not always easy. I don't know how my parents have been married as long as they have been, but it's over 30 years for them.
 
It's that high because women are more empowered in our society than others. So if it's a unhappy marriage, she can leave. She is more likely to have her own income, and in an abusive relationship, there are women's shelters.
 
OP needs to get the facts straight. The divorce rate is not 50%. Previous posters have already posted links disproving this stat.
 
The argument has nothing to do with people having to stay with someone they don't like. The arguement should be, why did you get married in the first place? People are getting married to quickly and stupidly. Marriage is too easy to do.
 
I think the problem is that a lot of people are picking the wrong partners. They have a poor knowledge of themselves and their partners and are perhaps somewhat immature. I don't think that people are really worse at picking partners than they used to be in previous generations; it's just that divorce wasn't an option in previous generations because of the huge stigma attached to it.

Incidentally, there's actually a bunch of researchers that came up with a way to determine whether or not a couple was going to end up in divorce with 90% accuracy. I listened to a piece on them on the radio. What they do is actually pretty simple. They just look for how considerate the couple is towards one another and other common sense sort of things.
 
What's the average age for the couple getting divorced? Yes, I will get flamed for this comment, but I think that couples getting married before 25 is too young. No way are young adults mature enough to be able to run a family. That's what I feel is the problem with the current generation in the 20s, thinking they can do way more than they are mature enough to handle yet.
 
oh i agree its messed up. heck i know 2 people that got married and were divorced in less then 2 years. of course both of them were messed up couples to bigin with.

heh me and my wife are going on 8 years (on the 13 of this month!).
 
My older sister's 10 year anniversary will be in less than a month. My younger sister will be married 7 years in October. I'm still single 😱.
 
Yeah, but then you have to factor in things like age. You still have a lot of people getting married when they're around 20 -- an age that has a huge likelihood for divorce. Just looking at states with a higher median age for marriage, you'll see it very clearly. I live in MA and we have a bit higher number and we also have the lowest divorce rate in the country.
 
Originally posted by: JS80
What a misleading stat. % of population that is divorced is like 10%.
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who the hell reads that as 1 in 2 americans, anyone with common sense knows that they are talking about divorce vs. marriage.
 
Originally posted by: JS80
What a misleading stat. % of population that is divorced is like 10%.
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Yeah, my grandmothers are both widowed, my nieces and nephews are under 15, my wife and I are married, my dad and his girlfriend are not, her kids are not. 10% divorced. Reading comprehension ftw.

If you read more of the chart you would see the % of marriages that end in divorce.
 
Blame it on the women empowerment movement. Since women have become more educated and wealthy, they no longer respect man's role. I don't want to sound like a chauvantist, but it's true!
 
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