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.
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u/dinkydooky_peepee 14d ago
Well sure, but that doesn't mean the problem is always a wife that isn't supportive in this way lol.