MEANWHILE, NOT EVERYTHING IS ROSY....
Meanwhile, older adults are actually becoming more likely to get divorced.
Among those 50 years of age or older, scholars have reported a rise in divorce from 1 in 10 in 1990 to nearly 1 in 4 in 2010. This trend is called “gray divorce.”
A report commissioned by the AARP offers insight into the nature and consequences of gray divorce. Women’s economic independence may help them opt out of these unhappy marriages.
Some older adults end their unhappy unions because they have grown apart. In her dissertation and forthcoming book, marriage and family therapist Crystal Hemesath defines falling out of romantic love as a lack of sexual attraction, emotional connectedness or sense of relationship togetherness.
> people from underrepresented racial and ethnic groups
This is why Newsweek sold for a dollar
Younger Adults Drive Decline in America’s Divorce Rate
The trend is that younger people are not getting married.
Thus, if you are never married, it is extraordinarily difficult to get divorced.
In addition, with fewer couples getting married, those who do get married are more committed to the relationship and to the concept of marriage.
Some random musings
Two of my 20 something nieces married in the last few years to great guys and already have babies and all their friends are getting married and having babies.
Noticed way too many of males my age from HS or fraternity brothers coming out as gay in their 50’s and divorcing their wives.
My neighbor is 79 and divorcing his wife of over 50 years.
I don’t get it.
I’m a senior who has been happily divorced about 30 years and I’m still in my 60’s.
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... stopped reading at “underepresented”
Assholes.
... stopped reading at “underepresented”
Assholes.
The problem with divorce stats has always been that it invariably includes people who are serial divorcers. When you have someone marrying/divorcing 2 to 3 or more times, it really skews the stats.
Breaking out the first-marriage divorce stats makes a huge difference. I believe that divorce rate has consistently been quite low.
Bkmrk.
Well, yeah. They’re hooking up or shacking up. Not many of them are getting married. It’s obvious in the “village” around us. They don’t even have the motivation to build mud huts and are living with their single parents or in ever larger groups in rotting houses.