Article- divorce based on age

[huckleberry08]

Interesting. I agree that there's probably a selection effect of some sort reflecting personality types that remain unmarried by that point, for whatever reason. There may also be a more liberal mindset/lifestyle that avails itself more to being okay with divorce.

[majwv8]

I love a good graph. Wanted to bring this in here.

[stargazer763]

Wa-hoo! Right at the minimum. Nice.
ETA: Pretty sure I used "nadir" incorrectly. Meh, astronomers don't use nadir and zenith anyway.

[anustart1]

Jul 17, 2015 15:07:35 GMT -5 stargazer763 said:

Wa-hoo! Right at the minimum. Nice.
ETA: Pretty sure I used "nadir" incorrectly. Meh, astronomers don't use nadir and zenith anyway.

I was 27 but DH was 28 so it looks like we're right around the minimum too.
Kind of weird since we've been together since we were 18 so it doesn't seem to count!

[pkp2]

Also, I would imagine that the older you are the more you are set in your ways and it's not easy to incorporate a new person into your routine.

I was 26 and DH was 36 when we got married.

[vitafelix]

H'a takeaway was disbelief than an 11 year old is getting married, which led to an investigation on minor marriage license laws in the U.S.

[nursemommy13]

So I was 26 when we got married..... And now I'm divorced. Statistically that was the best time to get married....

Statistics was not my favorite subject in school.

[vitafelix]

Jul 17, 2015 21:19:18 GMT -5 thelorax said:

Jul 17, 2015 21:00:11 GMT -5 vitafelix said:

H'a takeaway was disbelief than an 11 year old is getting married, which led to an investigation on minor marriage license laws in the U.S.

At least the margin of error was larger for that sample size?

I said pretty much that, too!

P.S. For those of you who are wondering, in most places you would need parental consent and/or a court order to marry under 16.

[sympkin]

I don't know if you can just take a snap shot across the board and calculate relative risk of divorce

I've read some other studies that so-called "millenials" are already proving to have a higher divorce rate than "gen X" even though the average age to get married does seem to be that perfect sweet spot of 27.

Problems with generational cohorts aside.

[vitafelix]

Jul 18, 2015 11:52:43 GMT -5 @coffeeismylyfe said:

Jul 17, 2015 21:27:51 GMT -5 vitafelix said:

I said pretty much that, too!

P.S. For those of you who are wondering, in most places you would need parental consent and/or a court order to marry under 16.

Maybe I'm thinking about this wrong but how would the court order work? Like they could compell two minors to get married? Or they could marry them through court order without parental consent?

I think basically they would need permission from their parents and a judge, to make sure the parents aren't arranging it/forcing it/crazy cult/whatever.