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We live in the US, where the success of a marriage is closer to a coin toss. It's pretty abaurd to try to take the average from across the world in this case.
by throwntoday 3y ago
We live in the US, where the success of a marriage is closer to a coin toss. It's pretty abaurd to try to take the average from across the world in this case.
- dublinben 3y agoThe simple average hides a lot of differences between demographic groups. If you’re college educated, earn a higher income, white or Asian, and get married later, then your chances of success are much higher than 50/50.
- selcuka 3y agoUS average is even lower (0.3%). I believe you, but your metric must be wrong.
- phito 3y agoWhere do you get that from...? Everything I find online says it's between 40% and 50%. 0.3% makes no sense.
- selcuka 3y agoDivorce rate means the percentage of people getting a divorce every year. Your 40-50% figure must be the total percentage of marriages that end in divorce. Now the GP said "divorce rate", so I take it they meant the former. If it's the latter, then 1% is abnormally low (and can't be simply explained with happy marriages).