An Alternative to Divorce?
Divorce rates in the western world are at an all-time high - yet people getting into marriages for the first time are getting older and older.
In the 1960s half of all girls in the USA were married by their twentieth birthday. Males were about two years older.
In the 90s teenage marriages peaked, which no doubt accounts in part for the high percentage of divorces. The national statistics reveal that teenage marriages are the most unstable with the highest chance of divorce.
But coincidentally and over a longer period, there was a larger trend for people to leave their nuptials to their early 30s - again, with women a couple of years younger than their partners.
Whatever happened to the wisdom of age?
Perhaps that is why another trend is starting to 'come out' - that of multi-partner marriages. They don't have their own statistical category yet, but more and more fully functioning families contain 3, 4, even 5 consenting adults ... often with children.
Divorce? Perhaps it's an alternative?
In the 1960s half of all girls in the USA were married by their twentieth birthday. Males were about two years older.
In the 90s teenage marriages peaked, which no doubt accounts in part for the high percentage of divorces. The national statistics reveal that teenage marriages are the most unstable with the highest chance of divorce.
But coincidentally and over a longer period, there was a larger trend for people to leave their nuptials to their early 30s - again, with women a couple of years younger than their partners.
Whatever happened to the wisdom of age?
Perhaps that is why another trend is starting to 'come out' - that of multi-partner marriages. They don't have their own statistical category yet, but more and more fully functioning families contain 3, 4, even 5 consenting adults ... often with children.
Divorce? Perhaps it's an alternative?
posted by Lyn Devon at 6:49 PM
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