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Originally Posted by RedHot25
Congrats, Cow! My 1st one is just around the corner....I have a bit to go yet.
Without having read the article...and just some mindless ramblings... I wonder how much the divorce rate decreasing is tied into the (and this is an assumption) actual marriage rate decreasing as well. I.e. did the article talk about that? Did it include or exclude common-law? Etc. If I remember correctly, there is a rising percentage of single people, which would obviously affect the marriage and divorce rate  . |
Yes it did suggest that fact, I did not find much encouragement reading the article. And it said many more couples are just cohabitating, some relationships producing children, some not. They suggested that when these relationships fall apart, they should be considered as a divorce too. However, it did not sound to me like they included statistics from this group.
The only improvement I could see from this article is among those where family income is sufficient enough to avoid a lot of domestic problems about finances. The article said that among low income earners, the divorce rate is not changing, the trend for high divorce rate continues there.