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I think we are also seeing lower divorce rates and suspect a rebound once the economy picks up and as this generation of children ages.
by willcipriano 3y ago
I think we are also seeing lower divorce rates and suspect a rebound once the economy picks up and as this generation of children ages.
- geodel 3y agoYeah, this is terrible. A robust divorce rate is must for healthy growing economy.
- Spivak 3y agoThe assumption is that there is a "idealized" rate of divorce that would exist if all impediments were removed. The actual divorce rate being close to this is a signal of high economic mobility across the economy and vice versa. I like it tbh, it's a good big mac index. I would bet there's also an idealized rate of people finding their endgame that is much lower than the marriage rate and getting closer to that trends with high social mobility.
- capn_duck 3y agoI interpreted the parent comment in the inverse. A poor economy means people will stay in unhappy situations longer than otherwise.
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- threeseed 3y agoUS is indeed seeing lower divorce rates. I do wonder if it's correlated to the decline in couples having children. [1] https://www.forbes.com/advisor/legal/divorce/divorce-statistics/ https://www.forbes.com/advisor/legal/divorce/divorce-statist...
- brailsafe 3y agoIn the same paragraph it's also stated that there's a proportional decline in marriages, each declining by ~2 per 1000