Holy crap! You have all been brainwashed by the media! The statistical average of couples getting divorces isn't nearly as high as many people think. People hear that the divorce rate is 50% and assume they're getting the whole story, but they're not! The divorce rate for people who get married before either partner turns 24 is very high. A couple where at least one of the partners is at least 24 drop by to less than half the divorce rate of both being less than 24. And couples that get married with both being at least 24 have divorce rates at around 10%. The majority of people who get married these days fall into categories of one or both being at least 24. The overall divorce rate is only about 27%. It's only that high because of the first category of people getting married when they're both less than 24. If you're wondering why this is I would like to point out that the brain hasn't finished developing until you're 24! Isn't it an amazing correlation? The more your brain has developed, the more mature and able to handle married life you are. That and the average wages for those age brackets have some effect. But overall, marriage isn't failing. We just have less pressure to make it work at younger ages than we did before. It used to be that they would make it work for the years that were hardest, then they would get to they years they really could handle it anyway.
Do you think marriage has lost its meaning nowadays?
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Holy crap! You have all been brainwashed by the media! The statistical average of couples getting divorces isn't nearly as high as many people think. People hear that the divorce rate is 50% and assume they're getting the whole story, but they're not! The divorce rate for people who get married before either partner turns 24 is very high. A couple where at least one of the partners is at least 24 drop by to less than half the divorce rate of both being less than 24. And couples that get married with both being at least 24 have divorce rates at around 10%. The majority of people who get married these days fall into categories of one or both being at least 24. The overall divorce rate is only about 27%. It's only that high because of the first category of people getting married when they're both less than 24. If you're wondering why this is I would like to point out that the brain hasn't finished developing until you're 24! Isn't it an amazing correlation? The more your brain has developed, the more mature and able to handle married life you are. That and the average wages for those age brackets have some effect. But overall, marriage isn't failing. We just have less pressure to make it work at younger ages than we did before. It used to be that they would make it work for the years that were hardest, then they would get to they years they really could handle it anyway.