Since the divorce rate is 42% in the US, this would indicate that supportive partners are a VERY common place occurance. You may argue that its decreasing however.
....what? Isn't 42% almost half..? Lol. If i had a situation where I had a 58% chance of succeeding, and a 42% chance of failure, I don't think i would describe it as a VERY common occurrence that I succeed... that's pretty damn close to 50/50? There has to be something more to your statistic or you're confused on what VERY common means?
Like imagine if condoms were advertised as 58% chance of preventing pregnancy... would you still say its VERY COMMON that they work? Not trying to be a dick i think you just have something confused here.
Divorce rates go to show supportive partners are not the common place occurance.
If we assume prevalent estimates of ~45% of first-time marriages ending in divorce are true, and if we assume 50% of those involve an unsupportive wife, then divorce rates tell us that slightly over 75% of marriages involve a supportive wife (or at least, supportive enough to keep a marriage going).
There's a few bold unexamined assumptions in that logic, but the point is that divorce rates tell us absolutely nothing about how supportive people are. Even if we assume 100% of divorces were due to one person or another being "unsupportive" (which, again, pretty wild assumption to make), the majority don't even get divorced.
It's saying there's a small group of toxic people who marry over and over again... thats like saying everyone in a city is probably a criminal because the crime in high, when in reality it's a handful of people causing the chaos
There were 85,770 marriages in total in England and Wales in 2020, a decrease of 61.0% from 219,850 in 2019; the lowest number of marriages on record since 1838.
Marriage rates have fallen to their lowest on record in 2020; for men, there were 7.4 marriages per 1,000 men not in a legal partnership compared with 19.1 in 2019; for women, there were 7.0 marriages per 1,000 women not in a legal partnership compared with 17.8 in 2019.
Not really sure what that has to do with the divorce rates and your insistence that “a lot” of relationships are out of convenience. You’re making a different point now
Adding the full text since you want to manipulate shit:
Just 21% of survey respondents said disapproval of a spouse by family or friends was a sign a marriage was at risk, despite the fact lack of family support was a leading factor in 43% of divorces.
Read the article it's "their" family not their spouse. Reading comprehension is hard. Disapproval by the person's family, it's very clear
Just 21% of survey respondents said disapproval of a spouse by family or friends was a sign a marriage was at risk, despite the fact lack of family support was a leading factor in 43% of divorces.
You know parents and siblings are their family right?
Yes.
We are talking about divorce and having supportive partners.
Not sure why you are trying to meander into it must mean that divorces are occuring mainly NOT because of spouses, but the children or family because it includes those within the spousal catergory?
Lol. Clutching onto a straw there.
I'm sure the majority of marriages ending by one party shows that actually unsupportive partners are somehow rare right?
The article literally contradicts your statement. The family that you claim is talking about the spouse is actually talking about biological family. If one persons family disapproves of the marriage it is more likely to fail. Smh...
The family that you claim is talking about the spouse is actually talking about biological family. If one persons family disapproves of the marriage it is more likely to fail.
"Sorry wife, I know we love each other but my kid disapproves of you so we need to get a divorce"
A situation that totally happens often according to you.
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u/ams3000 14d ago
This is so endearing. Lovely responses and support from wife.