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This comment about family is simply not true. Divorce rates are at near record lows: https://www.statista.com/statistics/195955/divorce-rate-in-the-united-stat
by dgacmu 7y ago
This comment about family is simply not true. Divorce rates are at near record lows:
https://www.statista.com/statistics/195955/divorce-rate-in-the-united-states-since-1990/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/195955/divorce-rate-in-t...
part of that is due to marriage rates being down, but divorces as a percentage of marriages are also at the lowest point they've been since 1975:
https://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2019/03/divorce-rates-are-down-but-theres-a-catch/ https://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2019/03/divorce-rates...
- romaaeterna 7y agoThat is all true enough, but doesn't actually contradict my point. A number of cohort studies have reliably made the point that I did about divorce, and the increase of singleness and late singleness in the last few decades has seriously impacted middle class wealth formation.