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I'd be interested to see what the rate is if they only counted first marriages. Anecdotally, it seems many of my Boomer-aged relatives who got divorced ended u
by hiram112 8y ago
I'd be interested to see what the rate is if they only counted first marriages.
Anecdotally, it seems many of my Boomer-aged relatives who got divorced ended up getting married again (and possibly divorced again). The idea that you must be married to live together is very ingrained in their value system.
In contrast, those of my friends in the Gen-X / millennial groups seem to be getting divorced in their first marriage at the same ratio as the older generation, but almost all of them do not especially want to get married again, even if they have found new relationships and even had more children.
In other words, is it possible that the serial divorcees of the boomers are skewing the statistics?
- moate 8y agoOutcome is still the same: There are fewer people getting divorced. If the cause is that younger people are less likely to get divorced (which is what these stats are showing, even though that contradicts your anecdotal points) in their first marriage while older people keep getting married and divorced, there's still fewer overall divorces. If it's that younger people are once bitten twice shy as you suggest, then there are still fewer overall divorces.