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Real stats back up my arguments the majority of marriages end in divorce and are a bad financial move if you are a male. If you are a female marriage and divorce can work out very well for you financially.
Divorce rates are close to 60 percent. If you want to take your chances thats on you. Personally I value my economic and personal freedom far to much to ever consider marriage.
You are so very wrong
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We've all heard that 50 percent of marriages in the U.S. end in divorce.
And while that disheartening stat continues to get tossed around, the divorce rate isn't really at 50 percent -- and it isn't rising either. In fact, a new piece in the New York Times' data blog Upshot suggests that the divorce rate has actually been dropping for some time now. Looking at the numbers, the Times suggests the high divorce rate of the late 1970s and early 1980s may have just been a "historical anomaly," rather than a trend.
About 70 percent of marriages that*began in the 1990s reached their 15th anniversary, up from roughly 65 percent of those that began in the 1970s and 1980s. And couples who wed in the 2000s are divorcing at even lower rates.
Real stats back up my arguments the majority of marriages end in divorce and are a bad financial move if you are a male. If you are a female marriage and divorce can work out very well for you financially.
Stats actually do not back you up, they flat out refute you. You are wrong, point blank.
Averaged out it's approximately 49%. While not steller, it's not a "majority"
Stats actually do not back you up, they flat out refute you. You are wrong, point blank.
Averaged out it's approximately 49%. While not steller, it's not a "majority"
Oh boy 49 percent what great odds . Also doesn't change the fact that men get hosed by sexist courts after a divorce losing custody of children just because courts are biased towards women. Not to mention alimony laws its ridiculous you would have to be insane to get married in this day and age.
Also doesn't change the fact that men get hosed by sexist courts after a divorce losing custody of children just because courts are biased towards women.
While that may have been somewhat true in the past, the tide has definitely shifted in a lot of jurisdictions.
I would hope so. Blatant favoritism of one gender should be illegal female privilege in society should be pointed out and challenged.
I know, for a fact, that there are many jurisdictions here in the US where the "best interests of the child" are taken very seriously. And that does not include feeding into the notion that somehow, because she has a vagina, the mother is a better parent.
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Real stats back up my arguments the majority of marriages end in divorce and are a bad financial move if you are a male. If you are a female marriage and divorce can work out very well for you financially.
Yeah no.
It's about 35% of first time marriages end in divorce. And women come out worse after divorce. Stats show this really clearly.
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Stats actually do not back you up, they flat out refute you. You are wrong, point blank.
Averaged out it's approximately 49%. While not steller, it's not a "majority"
It's about a third, and has been for years. The numbers for college educated people are even lower.
Divorce rates are close to 60 percent. If you want to take your chances thats on you. Personally I value my economic and personal freedom far to much to ever consider marriage.
Marriage is the only way to bring someone here who lives in Russia, she can't just be your gf. And I assume OP was unable to find a women here to date or he wouldn't have gone overseas in the first place.
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. Also doesn't change the fact that men get hosed by sexist courts after a divorce losing custody of children just because courts are biased towards women. Not to mention alimony laws its ridiculous you would have to be insane to get married in this day and age.
