Of course I'm not taking a stance that the rate of change is not important. And of course it would need to drop in order to reduce and eventually eliminate occu

Of course I'm not taking a stance that the rate of change is not important. And of course it would need to drop in order to reduce and eventually eliminate occurrence... I was instead pointing out that simply bring up a reduced rate is not really a counterpoint. Especially when, as you accurately point out, the divorce rate is not even the entire picture for the rate-of-change of divorced households. See also Arizhel's sibling comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14150694 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14150694 But hey, will_brown did a better job of making the same point and defending himself: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14150843 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14150843