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I think it is perfectly reasonable to think that counselling correlates with divorce. People normally only go through counselling when things go wrong, and divo
by GuB-42 6y ago
I think it is perfectly reasonable to think that counselling correlates with divorce. People normally only go through counselling when things go wrong, and divorces also happen when things go wrong. I guess people are more likely to die after seeing a doctor for the same reason.
Refusing counselling against the advise of a specialist is another metric. And while I think that indeed, it correlates with higher divorce rates, it is not obvious at all and it took a few studies to get that result.
- yarcob 6y agoMaybe I chose the wrong word. Writing good summaries is hard! What they describe in the paper (they call it a "treatment") is more like a training for newlyweds. Maybe I should have phrased it like this: Couples who decline to take part in free relationship training have higher divorce rates. Or, more positively: Couples who participate in free relationship training have lower divorce rates. (But that implies causality, so it is again somewhat misleading)