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For the cohort of HN readers, it is nowhere near that high. See http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2013/article/pdf/marriage-and-divorce-patterns-by-gender-race-and-e
by usaar333 12y ago
For the cohort of HN readers, it is nowhere near that high.
See http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2013/article/pdf/marriage-and-divorce-patterns-by-gender-race-and-educational-attainment.pdf http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2013/article/pdf/marriage-and-di...
Among folks with college degrees, divorce rate is 31% for those marrying between 23 and 28 and 23% for those marrying between 29 and 34. Those with a masters degree, divorce at ~22%.
Even ignoring education and marriage age, only 26% of those who have kids while married (not before married) get divorced: http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nhsr/nhsr049.pdf http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nhsr/nhsr049.pdf
- waterlesscloud 12y ago1 in 4 chance is still a pretty huge risk considering the consequences.
- prostoalex 12y agoAlso, the rate counts marriages not people, so serial offenders like this guy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glynn_Wolfe http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glynn_Wolfe skew the average and require 28 marriages that don't end up in divorce just to even out.
- tomp 12y agoIt's not the current rate that is important, it's the trend. People marrying today will be getting divorced in 10-20 years; by then, the divorce rate could well be way more than 50%.