<story><title>The U.S. Divorce Rate Has Hit a 50-Year Low</title><url>https://ifstudies.org/blog/the-us-divorce-rate-has-hit-a-50-year-low</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>toomuchtodo</author><text>&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.jec.senate.gov&amp;#x2F;public&amp;#x2F;index.cfm&amp;#x2F;republicans&amp;#x2F;analysis?ID=672F430A-8F6B-4E77-ABBF-009B041CFE17&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.jec.senate.gov&amp;#x2F;public&amp;#x2F;index.cfm&amp;#x2F;republicans&amp;#x2F;anal...&lt;/a&gt; (U.S. Marriage Rates Hit New Recorded Low)&lt;p&gt;Between the above post, and this post, not good if you read why this is occurring (economic security).&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Meanwhile, America’s so-called “marriage divide” is only widening. College-educated and economically better off Americans are more likely to marry and stay married, but working-class and poor Americans face more family instability and higher levels of singleness. For Americans in the top third income bracket, 64% are in an intact marriage, meaning they have only married once and are still in their first marriage. In contrast, only 24% of Americans in the lower-third income bracket are in an intact marriage, according to my analysis of the 2018 Census data.&amp;quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>DoreenMichele</author><text>&lt;i&gt;but working-class and poor Americans face more family instability and higher levels of singleness.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;As a very poor divorced single mom, I will suggest this is not entirely bad news. Poor people used to marry as their only hope of surviving and this often left them stuck in dysfunctional and unhappy relationships.&lt;p&gt;I would rather be single than forced into a miserable and possibly abusive relationship as my only hope of survival.&lt;p&gt;The upper classes have something of a tendency to view all details of lower class life like every single bit of it is terrible and more bad news. There is a tendency to never see any stats in any kind of positive light. If you are poor, well it must suck to be you and you must be a victim every step of the way.&lt;p&gt;I think that is problematic as a framing. I think discussions of issues impacting poor people really need more nuance than that.</text></comment>
<story><title>The U.S. Divorce Rate Has Hit a 50-Year Low</title><url>https://ifstudies.org/blog/the-us-divorce-rate-has-hit-a-50-year-low</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>toomuchtodo</author><text>&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.jec.senate.gov&amp;#x2F;public&amp;#x2F;index.cfm&amp;#x2F;republicans&amp;#x2F;analysis?ID=672F430A-8F6B-4E77-ABBF-009B041CFE17&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.jec.senate.gov&amp;#x2F;public&amp;#x2F;index.cfm&amp;#x2F;republicans&amp;#x2F;anal...&lt;/a&gt; (U.S. Marriage Rates Hit New Recorded Low)&lt;p&gt;Between the above post, and this post, not good if you read why this is occurring (economic security).&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Meanwhile, America’s so-called “marriage divide” is only widening. College-educated and economically better off Americans are more likely to marry and stay married, but working-class and poor Americans face more family instability and higher levels of singleness. For Americans in the top third income bracket, 64% are in an intact marriage, meaning they have only married once and are still in their first marriage. In contrast, only 24% of Americans in the lower-third income bracket are in an intact marriage, according to my analysis of the 2018 Census data.&amp;quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>grawprog</author><text>I just really don&amp;#x27;t understand the point of marriage at all. It&amp;#x27;s typically an expensive ceremony that acts as a front to officially registering your relationship with the government and possibly a religious group.&lt;p&gt;Why does my relationship need to be officially registered?&lt;p&gt;Parental laws already don&amp;#x27;t require marriage as  factor.&lt;p&gt;If two people are going to stay together, a piece if paper telling them they&amp;#x27;re officially together.doesn&amp;#x27;t make any difference and if two people are going to separate, some paper&amp;#x27;s likely not going to stop it.</text></comment>