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Yeah, I'm not getting the fascination myself. People can do what they choose to do. Not my business.
I'm not a huge fan of marriage so I personally don't care if other people do or don't get married. It's an odd thing to get your knickers in a knot over. Or start a thread about for that matter.
There is a greater trend toward people not getting married. We're not, we've been together a long time 20 plus yrs. It was never an important thing for us, it just didn't register on the radar as being that important. I think Mrs. Chow probably has stronger feelings toward anti-marriage than I do. I think we grew up watching our parents have multiple failed marriages, IDK... maybe that sort of sticks with people. I'm more certain of not having kids than not being married, meaning I'm slight negative more neutral toward marriage. We've contemplated getting married just for the social security benefits for her. I've always made more money so if I were to pass she could collect on the higher amount... but IDK... heck all the talk of SS funding issues, who knows if t's gonna be around anyways.
I'm not part of the demographic that the OP is talking about, but yeah, I can see people not caring as much about marriage these days.
Is it a good thing or bad?? I don't know. I do think if people decide to have kids that they should probably be married... but IDK....
It would be somewhat hypocritical of me to rail against people not getting married since I'm not... so again, I don't know.
It would seem like each couple would have to decide what is important for them and move forward from that point.
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Marriage rate up to 2011:
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That doesn't look right. I thought the link in the original post said 25% of millenials won't ever get married. So that graph should start at 90 and decline to like 75%. You have it declining to 25%.
Weird that your government's stats don't really support that claim, though. And Australia's not even included in the ten countries with the lowest marriage rates.
How on earth would you know that?
I'm speaking from personal knowledge which does tend to be somewhat ahead of whatever stats are gathered 5 years ago.
I haven't been to or even heard of a wedding since before the GFC. Obviously folk STILL do get married, but not the ones I know.
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Not with a divorce rate at 50 plus percent.
Nothing is certain.
We've been over this a lot on this forum, but the divorce rate is fairly moderate (about a third) for first marriages, so most first marriages stay intact.
That divorce rate drops even further if the parties are college educated and waited until their late 20s/30s to have their first marriage.
The divorce rate peaked late 70s/early 80s (even then it didn't really approach 50%) and has since fallen (though recently plateaued).
We've been over this a lot on this forum, but the divorce rate is fairly moderate (about a third) for first marriages, so most first marriages stay intact.
That divorce rate drops even further if the parties are college educated and waited until their late 20s/30s to have their first marriage.
Any young person marrying today is almost guaranteed to eventually divorce.
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