"The Law" is an arse...
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Part of the way crazy divorce statistics like the 2/3rd thing arise (as well as the more than one marriage meaning greater likelihood of divorce, in much the same as more sexual partners means greater likelihood of relationships failing, almost by definition) is that they're often devised by dumbly dividing the number of divorces in a year by the number of marriages. This would be fallacious even if marriage rates and population were stable. Since they're not it's basically a meaningless number.
Somewhatfoolish said:
Part of the way crazy divorce statistics like the 2/3rd thing arise (as well as the more than one marriage meaning greater likelihood of divorce, in much the same as more sexual partners means greater likelihood of relationships failing, almost by definition) is that they're often devised by dumbly dividing the number of divorces in a year by the number of marriages. This would be fallacious even if marriage rates and population were stable. Since they're not it's basically a meaningless number.
They also disregard the fact that marriages nowadays are less likely to be ended by premature death, giving more time for one or both parties to want out. Average length of marriage is probably a better measure of success rather than proportion of marriages ending in divorce.mac96 said:
Somewhatfoolish said:
Part of the way crazy divorce statistics like the 2/3rd thing arise (as well as the more than one marriage meaning greater likelihood of divorce, in much the same as more sexual partners means greater likelihood of relationships failing, almost by definition) is that they're often devised by dumbly dividing the number of divorces in a year by the number of marriages. This would be fallacious even if marriage rates and population were stable. Since they're not it's basically a meaningless number.
They also disregard the fact that marriages nowadays are less likely to be ended by premature death, giving more time for one or both parties to want out. Average length of marriage is probably a better measure of success rather than proportion of marriages ending in divorce.geeks said:
mac96 said:
Somewhatfoolish said:
Part of the way crazy divorce statistics like the 2/3rd thing arise (as well as the more than one marriage meaning greater likelihood of divorce, in much the same as more sexual partners means greater likelihood of relationships failing, almost by definition) is that they're often devised by dumbly dividing the number of divorces in a year by the number of marriages. This would be fallacious even if marriage rates and population were stable. Since they're not it's basically a meaningless number.
They also disregard the fact that marriages nowadays are less likely to be ended by premature death, giving more time for one or both parties to want out. Average length of marriage is probably a better measure of success rather than proportion of marriages ending in divorce.My wife's is ridiculously complicated due to coming from a polygamous-until-recently-then-just-doing-same-with-a-different-name culture but basically stloads of it.
Generally speaking in the UK it's the wife who initiates the divorce.
I am prone to doing very stupid things that ps off family members, friends, and colleagues.
My wife is considerably younger than me and far more attractive (I weigh over 3 times as much... she still gets ID'd). She also has a higher sex drive.
While I have no reason whatsoever from how things are going (ridiculously awesomely actually) to think it will come to it, statistically I think it's wise for me to try to keep up to date with divorce law
Somewhatfoolish said:
geeks said:
mac96 said:
Somewhatfoolish said:
Part of the way crazy divorce statistics like the 2/3rd thing arise (as well as the more than one marriage meaning greater likelihood of divorce, in much the same as more sexual partners means greater likelihood of relationships failing, almost by definition) is that they're often devised by dumbly dividing the number of divorces in a year by the number of marriages. This would be fallacious even if marriage rates and population were stable. Since they're not it's basically a meaningless number.
They also disregard the fact that marriages nowadays are less likely to be ended by premature death, giving more time for one or both parties to want out. Average length of marriage is probably a better measure of success rather than proportion of marriages ending in divorce.My wife's is ridiculously complicated due to coming from a polygamous-until-recently-then-just-doing-same-with-a-different-name culture but basically stloads of it.
Generally speaking in the UK it's the wife who initiates the divorce.
I am prone to doing very stupid things that ps off family members, friends, and colleagues.
My wife is considerably younger than me and far more attractive (I weigh over 3 times as much... she still gets ID'd). She also has a higher sex drive.
While I have no reason whatsoever from how things are going (ridiculously awesomely actually) to think it will come to it, statistically I think it's wise for me to try to keep up to date with divorce law
Silvanus said:
Somewhatfoolish said:
geeks said:
mac96 said:
Somewhatfoolish said:
Part of the way crazy divorce statistics like the 2/3rd thing arise (as well as the more than one marriage meaning greater likelihood of divorce, in much the same as more sexual partners means greater likelihood of relationships failing, almost by definition) is that they're often devised by dumbly dividing the number of divorces in a year by the number of marriages. This would be fallacious even if marriage rates and population were stable. Since they're not it's basically a meaningless number.
They also disregard the fact that marriages nowadays are less likely to be ended by premature death, giving more time for one or both parties to want out. Average length of marriage is probably a better measure of success rather than proportion of marriages ending in divorce.My wife's is ridiculously complicated due to coming from a polygamous-until-recently-then-just-doing-same-with-a-different-name culture but basically stloads of it.
Generally speaking in the UK it's the wife who initiates the divorce.
I am prone to doing very stupid things that ps off family members, friends, and colleagues.
My wife is considerably younger than me and far more attractive (I weigh over 3 times as much... she still gets ID'd). She also has a higher sex drive.
While I have no reason whatsoever from how things are going (ridiculously awesomely actually) to think it will come to it, statistically I think it's wise for me to try to keep up to date with divorce law
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