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What percentage of high school relationships end in marriage?

What percentage of those marraiges last? Compared with other marriages?

My thoughts are that marriages that began in high school should last longer because the people have gotten to know each other by seeing each other very often for 4 or more years, and the relationship has survived through college (general college crazyness, long distance, etc). I'd like to know if the stats back me up.

It's for a paper for my psychology class, thanks for the help.
 
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I started dating my future wife my senior year in high school. I knew OF her before that but hadn't really had any classes with her before our senior year. She started off at a different college from me and I later followed her after lovesickness dealing with the long distance relationship, then we both transferred back to my original college. We were married when she graduated and it's going on 4 years now next month. We're still young and I guess you can technically never know what's going to happen, but I obviously can see myself being with her for the rest of my life.

I think a lot of it will depend on the situation obviously, but a lot of the factors you cited ARE valid reasons in some cases. Obviously at 18 a lot of people aren't yet mature enough to really know what they're getting into, but if you can make it through those rocky (in our case, fun) college-aged years to adulthood it goes a long way to seeing whether or not you're compatible with one another - not to mention the fact that you're forming a bond with somebody during a very critical phase in your life where you go through several major transitions (high school to college, college to real world/marriage, and sometimes real world w/out kids TO real world with kids) in a relatively short period of time.
 
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I don't have some real data but I'm pretty sure that a lot of them are going to be divorced in the first 7 years of the marriage.
 
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Originally posted by: freegeeks
I don't have some real data but I'm pretty sure that a lot of them are going to be divorced in the first 7 years of the marriage.
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Yes, but I will add another category into the mix - marriages that started in highschool because the girl got pregnant. Now THAT is a category that has abysmal "success" rates.
 

"What percentage of high school relationships end in marriage?

What percentage of those marraiges last? Compared with other marriages?"

Your thoughts are wrong from surfaced statisitics. Your statement was probably true about 2-3 decades ago when people stayed in relationships anyway, in spite of failure and discomfort. Not as many women went to college either. However, it isn't true now. Today many women go to college. The prioritisation of education and career is partly to blame for this change, along with perceived freedom to explore.

As far as my observation, few high school relationships end in marriage. It depends upon the area. If it's a rural area, then yes; there are more cases of marriages amongst high school sweethearts, and their marriages last longer. If it's an urban area, then no; many don't even reach marriage level. Nationwide, I believe there are few high school relationships that end in marriage.

If they do manage to end in relationships, they last a bit longer or stand a better chance of lasting, but they do fail like other relationships. The difference isn't statistically significant in urban areas. My point is that my hypothesis would be different from yours or that data is likely to lead you to a different conclusion from your hypothesis.

Unfortunately, I can't think of a data source for you to navigate. Perhaps you can try a state divorce statistic that reveals what year couples married and their dates of birth. Not all states offer that on the 'net. I know Texas offers a database of divorce and marriages, but it isn't very easy to navigate. I wish I could be more helpful.
 
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Originally posted by: vi_edit
Originally posted by: freegeeks
I don't have some real data but I'm pretty sure that a lot of them are going to be divorced in the first 7 years of the marriage.
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Yes, but I will add another category into the mix - marriages that started in highschool because the girl got pregnant. Now THAT is a category that has abysmal "success" rates.
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LOL

I would love to see the success rates of that category.

IMO people get married way too early

where I live more then 60% of all mariages end up in divorce.
2002 was the first year with MORE divorces then marriages

I have 2 friends who got married in the last 3 years. Both of them are divorced now (with all the sh*t that comes with having a divorce ---> the house, the laywers, the money ...)

marriage = overrated ;)
 
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marriage = overrated
Not overrated, just under valued
 
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Originally posted by: luvly
"What percentage of high school relationships end in marriage?

What percentage of those marraiges last? Compared with other marriages?"

Your thoughts are wrong from surfaced statisitics. Your statement was probably true about 2-3 decades ago when people stayed in relationships anyway, in spite of failure and discomfort. Not as many women went to college either. However, it isn't true now. Today many women go to college. The prioritisation of education and career is partly to blame for this change, along with perceived freedom to explore.

As far as my observation, few high school relationships end in marriage. It depends upon the area. If it's a rural area, then yes; there are more cases of marriages amongst high school sweethearts, and their marriages last longer. If it's an urban area, then no; many don't even reach marriage level. Nationwide, I believe there are few high school relationships that end in marriage.

If they do manage to end in relationships, they last a bit longer or stand a better chance of lasting, but they do fail like other relationships. The difference isn't statistically significant in urban areas. My point is that my hypothesis would be different from yours or that data is likely to lead you to a different conclusion from your hypothesis.

Unfortunately, I can't think of a data source for you to navigate. Perhaps you can try a state divorce statistic that reveals what year couples married and their dates of birth. Not all states offer that on the 'net. I know Texas offers a database of divorce and marriages, but it isn't very easy to navigate. I wish I could be more helpful.
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Thats pretty much my hypothesis, that while a smaller percentage of high school relationships end in marriage, when they do, it lasts.
 
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Thats pretty much my hypothesis, that while a smaller percentage of high school relationships end in marriage, when they do, it lasts.
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That's what I think too. If you can survive the relationship (without being "forced" into marriage) then both of you can tackle problems in marriage better. Both of you have better understanding of each other and tolerate each other well.
It's what you called practice makes perfect.

People nowadays rush into marriage 6 months into their relationship.
How much do you know about your spouse in 6 months ? diddily squat !
 
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