Divorce Rate not 50%.

[2centsworth]

the divorce rate is really 23%. The people who have been married and divorced multiple times distort the averages.

http://www.michaelmedved.com/pg/jsp/...0835F5F10D16C8

[Oh, Gee!!]

so 23% of all marriages end in divorce?

[DarkReign]

so 23% of all marriages end in divorce?

Honestly, does it matter? Ive never understood the fascination with divorce rates (not saying you, Gee). Of all things we can control (as a society), this is not one of them.

[Anti.Hero]

People make bad choices all the time. To protect the people from themselves, let us abolish marriage.

[Oh, Gee!!]

People make bad choices all the time. To protect the people from themselves, let us abolish marriage.

typical, you always want to stifle personal freedoms. move to russia.

[Anti.Hero]

typical, you always want to stifle personal freedoms. move to russia.

I won't have to. Give the USA a couple more years.

[Oh, Gee!!]

I won't have to. Give the USA a couple more years.

are you related to Nbadan?

[boutons_]

So marriage is really a solid social fabrication that must be restricted to heterosexuals, right, Medved?

any stats on infidelity by married people?

any stats on "sexless" marriages?

any stats on couples who live together, have families, but aren't married?

There's lots of cherries to pick, why be so picky?

[George Gervin's Afro]

the divorce rate is really 23%. The people who have been married and divorced multiple times distort the averages.

http://www.michaelmedved.com/pg/jsp/...0835F5F10D16C8

so what's the point? Rgarding people remarrying I have never met one couple who has been remarried to eachother. Where do they hang out? There must be tons of them to be able to distort the divorce rate so heavily..

[ChumpDumper]

Marriages after the first one don't count?

[fyatuk]

so what's the point? Rgarding people remarrying I have never met one couple who has been remarried to eachother. Where do they hang out? There must be tons of them to be able to distort the divorce rate so heavily..

My dad's 2nd and 4th wife are the same.

It wasn't talking about that kind of setup though, it was talking about the guys and gals that get married 6 times with none of them lasting more than a couple years. The ones who always think it will work out but are completely clueless as to what it takes for it to work.

I know a lot of people like that. We do a pool whenever they get married to pick the split.

That link listed 22.2% of people had "ever been divorced". It's a flawed line though, since that % seems to include those who have never been married, and is from a different set of data than the other two listings on the page, one of whichs says 24% of the people have never been married...

[fyatuk]

Marriages after the first one don't count?

A subset accounting for a large proportion of the statistic skews the values meant to be demonstrated. It's like proclaiming that US personal wealth in good shape because the average is whatever it is, when the truth is 95% owned by 5%.

It was an attempt to show the "broken home" numbers are overinflated by serial-divorcers.

[Spurminator]

The divorcee rate is 23%.

The divorce rate is higher.

[spurster]

How come there are over 7 million more women who are married than men?

[DarkReign]

How come there are over 7 million more women who are married than men?

Massachusetts?

[Spurminator]

Massachusetts?

Utah?