Marriage rate going down let's talk about causes and affects.

**HJR** · 09-24-2011, 03:55 PM

Marriage rate dropping harder then the dollar lol. Whats going on? One day will it all just be open? No more one and only? What caused this?

**Castle-Bravo354** · 09-24-2011, 04:02 PM

Originally Posted by HJR

Marriage rate dropping harder then the dollar lol. Whats going on? One day will it all just be open? No more one and only? What caused this?

since marriage is the main cause of divorce I can understand this....but what is it that has dropped from 60 to 40 what? This is a bit incomplete to me.

There are plenty of folks getting married that I know of.

**nivek** · 09-24-2011, 04:10 PM

It comes from a blog dated from last year and the chart is claimed to be take from a University of Virginia study...There's a link to the study which is in PDF...

The End Of Marriage

**bill.zen** · 09-24-2011, 04:11 PM

Originally Posted by Castle-Bravo354

since marriage is the main cause of divorce I can understand this..

Lol, you can't get divorced in the first place if you're not married. That's like saying cow is the main cause of steak.

I love you man. I just found this a bit funny.

**HJR** · 09-24-2011, 04:19 PM

Originally Posted by Castle-Bravo354

since marriage is the main cause of divorce I can understand this....but what is it that has dropped from 60 to 40 what? This is a bit incomplete to me.

There are plenty of folks getting married that I know of.

The rate of marriage there were more people getting married back then, then now. Those are two lines are a projected based on if marriage rate continues to decline at a accelerating rate. Marriage rate has not just declined but it is declining at a exponential rate.

While people are still getting married now compared to the year 1980 the rate has dropped by half and it will drop even harder in the years to come as predicted with the current trend.

Which is charts show will take a toll on the birth rate. More being made now babies now then there will be in the future.

This is all just rates though not numbers meaning there will be lesser on both in the future the numbers would depend on the population.

**HJR** · 09-24-2011, 04:23 PM

Here is another chart that shows predicted population considering birth rate and death rate.

**HJR** · 09-24-2011, 04:30 PM

Scratch those last two charts I like this one better.

**HJR** · 09-24-2011, 04:33 PM

Could we say that all these charts are tied together? Does marriage rate affect the population?

**Captain Tinkle** · 09-24-2011, 04:44 PM

You always have to be careful concerning graphs and figures. I never trust them...

You do not know where they got their information from, how many people they interview, when the study was undertaken, how many people have not reported their marrige to the relevant institution and so on...

All these graphs look a bit to "perfect" to me.

I somewhat doubt the marrige rate is going down, it is more likely the divorce rate is probably going up...

**HJR** · 09-24-2011, 05:07 PM

Originally Posted by Captain Tinkle

You always have to be careful concerning graphs and figures. I never trust them...

You do not know where they got their information from, how many people they interview, when the study was undertaken, how many people have not reported their marrige to the relevant institution and so on...

All these graphs look a bit to "perfect" to me.

I somewhat doubt the marrige rate is going down, it is more likely the divorce rate is probably going up...

I don't know about other countries but I believe the study was based on how many people back then and now are legally married having a marriage license. Here is where the study comes from if you want to dive deeper.
http://www.virginia.edu/marriageproj...n_11_25_09.pdf
Again I am not exactly sure how the data was obtained although I do not doubt that University of Virginia would have insufficient data on this.