Im very curious about how divorce stats are measured. When I read that 70% plus of everyone alive whos every been married are still married to their first spouse, Im encouraged. But that includes everyone whos been married 1 year measured the same as those who have been married for 40 years. This tells us very little about divorce statistics in marriage. ts potentially a measure of the wrong thing. Id rather measure at time of death. Among individuals who have ever been married in the last 75 years, what percentage of them, at the time of their death, were still married to their first spouse? Every marriage either ends by death or by divorce. Only a comparison that includes both measures will be truly helpful. Take marriages that begin in a specific time frame. Follow them over time. How many are currently divorced? How many ended because of death? How many are TBT because theyre both alive? Of these, how many would classify themselves as happy or struggling but working on it or struggling and stuck? Or maybe: Of those who have ever been married who die, how many of them divorced at some point in their life verses how many never divorced? If this method employed, you would graph results compared by what decade the marriage began in. Does anyone know of any research that measures in this kind of way?
Posted on: Thu, 03 Jul 2014 20:46:00 +0000
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