Do college educated working couples with kids have higher divorce rates than couples where only one spouse is working? (date, wife)

[homerboy]

As title states, do husband and wife married couples, who have children, who are both college educated, and who both work full time have higher divorce rates than married couples where one is full time and the other is part time or do not work?



Looking for actual statistics or studies...


Thanks.

[funymann]

Originally Posted by homerboy

As title states, do husband and wife married couples, who have children, who are both college educated, and who both work full time have higher divorce rates than married couples where one is full time and the other is part time or do not work?



Looking for actual statistics or studies...


Thanks.

I’m not sure.

Depends on the amount of communication. Date night. Lots of texts.

[picardlx]

Ha. Sometimes I do think we forget this is City DATA after all. I remember stumbling on this place 10 years ago looking for some data. I never left.

[yellowsnow]

Right. I am sure most physicists would be happy and fulfilled changing diapers and cleaning house.

[Masamune]

In case it's relevant to what you're trying to find, keep in mind that a marriage isn't necessarily successful just because the couple hasn't divorced.

[srjth]

Ever heard the figure of speech "Barefoot and pregnant"?
It's one way to reduce the risk of her leaving you, especially if you can only afford to pay for 1 household vs. 2.

[Ruth4Truth]

Originally Posted by homerboy

As title states, do husband and wife married couples, who have children, who are both college educated, and who both work full time have higher divorce rates than married couples where one is full time and the other is part time or do not work?



Looking for actual statistics or studies...


Thanks.

Do you think it has to do with their life circumstances, or with their personalities? It depends on everything BUT the things you mentioned. It depends on whether they see eye to eye about child-raising, about money management, about whether they're both committed to each other and to fidelity, about whether they're both honest and have good communication skills, about their maturity levels, about how stable they both are psychologically, about how they each deal with stress individually, and together as a couple; about how they problem-solve together.

Get the picture?

OP, couples where only one works divorce all the time. If two people are incompatible, nothing else matters. It's not going to work out long-term, no matter what.

[grad_student200]

Originally Posted by homerboy

As title states, do husband and wife married couples, who have children, who are both college educated, and who both work full time have higher divorce rates than married couples where one is full time and the other is part time or do not work?



Looking for actual statistics or studies...


Thanks.

In general, college degrees reduce the probability of divorce. But that is one factor. Other factors include age, compatibility, lifestyle, religion, politics, parenthood style, income, etc.

If the married, working-full-time couple can afford babysitters comfortably (without infidelity from the dad), then it would seem more stable than the one-parent working household.

But I have done a lot of machine learning, and one industry expert told me the highest predictor of divorce out of all the many possible factors is usually income. If the one-parent working household has a very, very high income, then their divorce rates could be lower.

This analysis would take a lot of data and may vary by age, region, ethnicity, religion, etc. A couple both working with a very high income but in a 2nd marriage may actually be at a higher risk of divorce than a couple where only one works but is in a first marriage (albeit lower income). There are too many parameters but it would make a great machine learning project for predictive analytics with vital statistical data from all 50 states and court records entered into a data warehouse system to run predictions using logistic regression, Bayes theorem, Principal Component Analysis, Lasso, Nearest Neighbor Algorithm, Random Forests, etc. The prediction is only as good as the data though.

[elnina]

Originally Posted by Lou

In case it's relevant to what you're trying to find, keep in mind that a marriage isn't necessarily successful just because the couple hasn't divorced.

Or because they are educated.
Or because only one parent works.
Divorce rates vary depending on country, civil laws, social net, ethnics and cultures, religion, profession, upbringing, financial status etc...etc...

In the US divorce rates among lower-income families remain stagnant, roughly where they were in the 1980's, while new research shows higher-income families are seeing a decline in divorce rates. For higher-income families, the phrase “half of every marriage ends in divorce” is no longer true.

Also read this:
https://www.wf-lawyers.com/divorce-s...ics-and-facts/

[somebodynew]

Originally Posted by Lou

In case it's relevant to what you're trying to find, keep in mind that a marriage isn't necessarily successful just because the couple hasn't divorced.

This is such an oft missed point that it feels important to me to AGREE. So often the statistic that women file more place "blame" on divorce on women. How about just staying does not make much of a marriage.