Millennials Are Causing the U.S. Divorce Rate to Plummet

[Westbrook]

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/artic...ate-to-plummet


Americans under the age of 45 have found a novel way to rebel against their elders: They’re staying married.

New data show younger couples are approaching relationships very differently from baby boomers, who married young, divorced, remarried and so on. Generation X and especially millennials are being pickier about who they marry, tying the knot at older ages when education, careers and finances are on track. The result is a U.S. divorce rate that dropped 18 percent from 2008 to 2016, according to an analysis by University of Maryland sociology professor Philip Cohen.

Young people get the credit for fewer divorces because boomers have continued to divorce at unusually high rates, all the way into their 60s and 70s. From 1990 to 2015, according to Bowling Green’s National Center for Family and Marriage Research, the divorce rate doubled for people aged 55 to 64, and even tripled for Americans 65 and older. Cohen’s results suggest this trend, called “grey divorce,” may have leveled out in the past decade, but boomers are still divorcing at much higher rates than previous generations did at similar ages.

[Smitty]

Millennials still aren't getting married very frequently either, though. If Baby Boomers want lessons on marriage, they should take them instead from their parents, who married young and stayed married.

[The Lawspeaker]

Can't get divorced if you don't get married:

[Ayetooey]

Millennial's aren't getting married in the first place; and the ones who do get married probably have more socially conservative or religious values hence the drop in divorce rate.

[Westbrook]

The marriage rate has also fallen over the last several decades. But Cohen calculates the divorce rate as a ratio of divorces to the total number of married women. So, the divorce rate’s decline isn’t a reflection of a decline in marriages. Rather, it’s evidence that marriages today have a greater chance of lasting than marriages did ten years ago.

“One of the reasons for the decline is that the married population is getting older and more highly educated,” Cohen said. Fewer people are getting married, and those who do are the sort of people who are least likely to get divorced, he said. “Marriage is more and more an achievement of status, rather than something that people do regardless of how they’re doing.”

Many poorer and less educated Americans are opting not to get married at all. They’re living together, and often raising kids together, but deciding not to tie the knot. And studies have shown these cohabiting relationships are less stable than they used to be.

Millennial's aren't getting married in the first place; and the ones who do get married probably have more socially conservative or religious values hence the drop in divorce rate.

[Slavic Italian]

They rarely engage each other in person. It's a sight to behold. They are all addicted to their phones.

[JosephK]

They rarely engage each other in person. It's a sight to behold. They are all addicted to their phones.

Even when they're not on their phones they just kind of sit and stare.

[Slavic Italian]

Even when they're not on their phones they just kind of sit and stare.

They are very awkward. Creepy even.

[Dragoon]

They may stay married, but marriages are happening less often and there are less children/babies.

"Me me I want my comfort". Individualist liberalism for ya. Infects most of the West now.

[KMack]

They rarely engage each other in person. It's a sight to behold. They are all addicted to their phones.

Yes, it is rather pathetic.