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According to Wikipedia the divorce rate is 53% in the US
That is the rate at which a sample of married people get divorced
It's a simplification of statistics. First marriages have a lower failure rate, but of those marriages that fail, a vast number of those people remarry and each remarriage has a higher failure rate. If you are marrying for the fourth or fifth time -- it will fail.
According to Wikipedia the divorce rate is 53% in the US. That is the rate at which a sample of married people get divorced
What a horrible mistake for a "numbers person" to make. That is the ratio of the crude divorce rate per thousand in 2011 (3.6) to the crude marriage rate per thousand in 2011 (6.8). These are unrelated numbers. Their ratio says exactly nothing about the probability that a given marriage or a given year's worth up marriages will end in divorce. What they say is that the sum of all of the marriages that occurred in 2011 and in all prior years resulted in a number of divorces per thousand during 2011 that was 53% of the number of new marriages per thousand that occurred in 2011. This is pretty basic stuff to be completely confused by.
Last edited by oaktonite; 07-21-2013 at 08:49 PM..
It's a simplification of statistics. First marriages have a lower failure rate, but of those marriages that fail, a vast number of those people remarry and each remarriage has a higher failure rate. If you are marrying for the fourth or fifth time -- it will fail.
By the time some are on spouse 3 or 4 they are too old to care and often end up staying married because it's easier once they start having health problems and whatnot. You really have to divorce young and often to beat those numbers but I had an uncle who did, he hit 8 but married 2 woman twice each so only 6 different wives total.
There are tons of new immigrant who marry US citizen for green card also! (some of them even marry 2-3 times to get successful interview). Question is how much people really divorce because of "personal money issue".
I can't believe there is actually people who live together and they have separated money in same household.
I know of one couple whose money is separate. He comes from a wealthy background (she does not) and he makes a great deal more than she does. They keep separate checking accounts, and they came to a mutual agreement about who pays which bills. He also gives her an "allowance" because she helps him with his business (he is an independent contractor). That doesn't seem right to me, but she is OK with it.
On the other hand, my husband and I have shared everything from the beginning. We're retired now, but we had incomes that were about equal. When I received a substantial inheritance, legally it was separate property. I could have put it all in my own name, but I had no problem with sharing it jointly with him. I wanted it to be in both our names so that if anything happens to me, it automatically becomes his. For his part, he used money from the sale of his former house to make a very substantial down payment (about 30%) on the house we own now, which is in both our names.
I feel that marriage is a partnership, and there shouldn't be "mine" and "yours." But, as a previous poster has suggested, the important thing is that both partners agree on how the money is managed.
Yes, he and others are very confused about all that.
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