Why 25% of millenials will never get married... (Christian, love, husband)

[timberline742]

Originally Posted by cindersslipper

Any young person marrying today is almost guaranteed to eventually divorce.

This statistics don't support this.

[neutrino78x]

Originally Posted by sunnysky444

Being married is a plus in that you don't have to date anymore and keep winding up on these forums about where the relationship went wrong......

Wouldn't that be true of an LTR too?

The thing is if you get married, divorce is a major hassle. You could have avoided it by not getting married.

Now if you plan to have kids yes you could probably benefit from the legal protections of marriage.

[DC33]

I remember seeing a study several years ago where couples that were married for 40+ years were asked that knowing all that they know now if given the chance, would they marry the same person again. Only 20% said yes.
That's means 10 couples get married, 5 divorce, the other 5 stay together, but only 1 couple is actually happy. Thus 9 out of 10 marriages are truly failures.

I would think that staying with someone you don't really want to be with is far far far worse than divorce.

Why marry with a true 90% failure rate?

[Ashleyga]

Originally Posted by cindersslipper

Any young person marrying today is almost guaranteed to eventually divorce.

No, less than 40% of these marriages end in divorce. By young, I'm assuming you mean late teens to mid twenties. Most are actually successful.

[cindersslipper]

Originally Posted by timberline742

This statistics don't support this.

The statistics are, by their nature, out of date.

You would have to fast forward 50 years in time to state confidently WHAT the divorce rate will become.

I suggest it will be 80% if not higher.

Marriage is already out of vogue in Australia, generally.

[timberline742]

Originally Posted by cindersslipper

The statistics are, by their nature, out of date.

You would have to fast forward 50 years in time to state confidently WHAT the divorce rate will become.

I suggest it will be 80% if not higher.

Marriage is already out of vogue in Australia, generally.

Marriage being "out of vogue" wouldn't increase divorce rates.

There are social statistics trends, and they indicate that divorce will remain stable or decrease even further.

[The Dissenter]

You can attribute this to the trend of millennials choosing atheism/agnosticism and more acceptance of the Childfree lifestyle for this. As a member of both communities, I see no need for marriage for myself and I have no desire for marriage.

[Hivemind31]

Originally Posted by timberline742

Marriage being "out of vogue" wouldn't increase divorce rates.

There are social statistics trends, and they indicate that divorce will remain stable or decrease even further.

Yep, this.

There's a difference between "more divorces" and "fewer married people"; one does not equate the other.

[Hivemind31]

Originally Posted by The Dissenter

You can attribute this to the trend of millennials choosing atheism/agnosticism and more acceptance of the Childfree lifestyle for this. As a member of both communities, I see no need for marriage for myself and I have no desire for marriage.

I would say this (or these) is A reason, not necessarily THE reason.

[neutrino78x]

Originally Posted by The Dissenter

You can attribute this to the trend of millennials choosing atheism/agnosticism and more acceptance of the Childfree lifestyle for this.

Both of those are very small percentages of the population, I don't think it accounts for what we're talking about. Especially the evil "childfree philosophy". There are a lot more people who can't have a kid for practical/financial reasons as opposed to thinking it is wrong to have kids or the human race should become extinct. But even the people who can't have kids for financial reasons, that's still fairly small, it's not 25%.