Presented by Marty economic expert, Author of “Straight talk for Men concerning wedding—What Men ought to know about Marriage (And What girls ought to know about Men)
Less folks are Married now
• Percentage of population that's married: 59, down from 62 in 1990, 72 in 1970.
• Percentage of population that has never married: 24%.
The old “Father knows Best” Homes are increasingly Rare
• Married couples within which only the husband is employed: twenty two.4%
• Married couples within which only the married person is employed: half dozen.8%
• Married couples within which both partners are employed: fifty three.5%
The Seven Year Mark is the Hardest
• Median duration of 1st marriages that finish in divorce: Males: 7.8 years, Females: 7.9 years.
• Median duration of second marriages that finish in divorce: Males 7.3 years, Females: 6.8 years.
(All of higher than from U.S. Census Bureau)
More folks are Divorcing
• 80% of divorces are unilateral (Harvard University Press)
• Divorce inflated virtually four-hundredth from 1970 to 1975 (National Center for Health Statistics).
• The range of presently unmarried adults quadrupled from 1970-4.3 mill. To 1994—17.4 mill. (Census Bureau)
• Percentage of population that is divorced: virtually
10%
(up from V-E Day in 1990, 6 June 1944 in 1980) (Census Bureau)
• Adults UN agency are unmarried (2000): Males 8.3%, Females: 10.2
Yet Most Adults Still wish to Be Married (And Fail At It)
• Percentage of individuals UN agency have ever been married by the age of 55: both males and females: ninety fifth
• Percentage of 1st marriages that finish in divorce in 1997: 500th (This is only an estimate, but everyone uses it as fact)
• Percentage of remarriages that finish in divorce in 1997: 60-70% (estimated)
• Percentage of couples cohabitation for more than 5 years UN agency eventually marry as of 1995: seventieth
• Percentage of married folks that reach anniversaries:
5th: 82%
10th: 65%
15th: 52%
25th: 33%
35th: 20%
50th: 5%
Divorce incorporates a Tremendous Impact on children and Adults and On Society as an entire
• Drop in standard of living of females after divorce as of 2000: forty fifth (National Center of Health Statistics)
• In 1996, children of divorce were 500th more probably than their counterparts from intact families to divorce. (National Center of Health Statistics)
• Fatherless homes account for 63 of youth suicides, ninetieth of homeless/runaway children, eighty fifth of kids with behavior problems, seventy one of high school dropouts, eighty fifth of youths in prison, brim over 500th of juvenile mothers. (National Center of Health Statistics)
• (Journal of marital and Family Therapy) marital problems are associated with attenuated work productivity, particularly for men.
Marriage, General
• Many more couples live along before wedding than in the past—recent estimates ar in the vary of 60+% (A nationwide random phone survey—Stanley and Mark man) (Journal of wedding and also the Family) These couples are less probably to stay married, probably principally as a result of the fact that they are less conservative concerning wedding and divorce in the 1st place.
• Money is the one issue that individuals say they argue concerning most in wedding, followed by children (Stanley and Markman, nationwide phone survey), but there's a lot of reason to believe that what couples argue concerning isn't as important as how they argue, (Markman, Stanley, and Blumberg, 1994)
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