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I wonder what the social causes of this are. It’s a shame that it’s just a list of statistics with no coverage of underlying reasons (is divorce easier? Is thei
by olliej 4y ago
I wonder what the social causes of this are. It’s a shame that it’s just a list of statistics with no coverage of underlying reasons (is divorce easier? Is their pressure to get married when it isn’t really appropriate? Are there legal benefits to being married that make short term marriage useful? Etc, etc)
- hwillis 4y agoIt is a statistical artifact. "Divorce rate" implies it's the rate of failed marriages to existing marriages. Instead it is the rate of new divorces to new marriages: https://www.pordata.pt/portugal/numero+de+divorcios+por+100+casamentos-531 https://www.pordata.pt/portugal/numero+de+divorcios+por+100+... Which is down from the peak and is an obvious inverse of the marriage rate: https://www.pordata.pt/portugal/taxa+de+nupcialidade-530 https://www.pordata.pt/portugal/taxa+de+nupcialidade-530 which is at an all-time low. The number of divorces has been decreasing for 24 years: https://www.pordata.pt/portugal/divorcios-323 https://www.pordata.pt/portugal/divorcios-323 And the only thing this 94% statistic represents is the decrease in marriages.
- olliej 4y agoThat's pretty obnoxious and would presumably explain why they don't explain the nature of their statistics. Obviously the way you determine the marriage success rate is dividing old marriages ending by the number of new marriages. That clearly makes sense. Thanks for looking into this! :D