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There was an article the other day that said divorce rates for millennials is down a notable amount from baby boomers, but without the marriage rate lowering. O
by sdegutis 8y ago
There was an article the other day that said divorce rates for millennials is down a notable amount from baby boomers, but without the marriage rate lowering. One way of interpreting this is that baby boomers have more selfish tendencies than other generations, and millennials are realizing that their parents' ways (including divorce) are selfish, and learning from their parents mistakes. If this is true, then it's perfectly in character for a stereotypical boomer to complain about millennials more than their parents complained about them.
- ev0lhanson 8y agoOr it says that people can't afford to get divorced. In dense urban areas the cost of housing/rent has gone way up and the incomes for younger people have not kept up. I don't think "millennials" are really all that different from the previous generation. However they do have very different forces pushing them in different directions.
- tssva 8y agoDivorce rates also decline when the economy declines. When the economy is booming people feel more confident in their potential future economic security post divorce and are more willing to roll the divorce dice. I would guess that has more to do with the rates than any moral superiority between generations.
- burlesona 8y agoI saw that study and it matched what I observe anecdotally around me. Millenials mostly have divorced parents and mostly feel that was a terrible way to grow up. So they’re waiting until they’re ready to have kids to get married to their long-term partner, and they’re approaching it with more of a sober commitment to stay together for the kids. At the end of the day, marriage is a choice you make every day. Different cultures have higher and lower divorce rates largely based on how seriously they take that commitment.