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Topic: Marriage Rates (rising) - Divorce Rates (decreasing)
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Odette
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posted May 18, 2013 10:39 PM
  
I guess times of upheaval bring people closer. Loving Love  In UK:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/recession/4409405/Recession-sees-marriage-rate-rise.html quote:
Recession sees marriage rate rise
The recession may have brought misery to many but it appears to have led to joy for others by encouraging increase in the number of marriages.At Christchurch Priory, in Dorset, bookings for 2009 are up 25 per cent on last year.
At Westminster register office, in London, there were 1,457 weddings and civil partnerships during the whole of 2008. After just one month of the new year, the office already has 776 bookings for 2009.
A spokesman said that that was an unusually high number so early in the year. "We have noticed that we are really busy. It does look like the credit crunch is making people get married," she said.
Registrars in Liverpool married 281 couples between September and December, compared with just 253 over the same period in 2007, a rise of 11 per cent.
In Newcastle, there were 815 weddings between April 2007 and the following March. Since then, there have already been 854.
In Leeds, in the second half of last year, when the effects of the credit crunch started to be felt across Britain, there were 887 marriages. This compares with the corresponding period in 2007 of just 841.
In Manchester, there were more than 1,600 weddings last year, compared to just over 1,500 the year before. Already, there have been 500 booked this year.
Divorce Rates Decreasing in the US:
http://visionmagazine1.wordpress.com/2011/07/08/divorce-rates-decreasing-love-marriage/
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Currently, 55 percent of married couples have been married for at least 15 years, 35 percent have reached their 25th anniversary and 6 percent have passed their golden (50th) wedding anniversary, according to a 2011 Census Bureau Report. Rosalie and Thomas Patton are one such couple, reaching their 57th anniversary this July. Rosalie agrees that marriage is hard, but it is worth it. Throughout her years she has gained great knowledge on the matter of marriage. She says, “Never go to bed mad. Always make up. Trust and respect one another at all times.
Very sweet. Brings joy and warmth to my cold cold Cappy Moon heart 
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PixieJane
Knowflake Posts: 2296
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Registered: Oct 2010
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posted May 19, 2013 02:37 AM
My guess is because more people are marrying when they're older and more stable than before. Though the upheaval probably does contribute to it, not necessarily because it brings them closer but at least sometimes because it's impractical to split when neither can afford it (and men are much harder to get a decent amount of support from as more have little to no income to begin with). IP: Logged |
Padre35
Moderator Posts: 1816
From: Asheville, NC, US
Registered: Jul 2012
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posted May 19, 2013 02:44 AM
Another reason could be when times are going good overall there is social pressure to have ones life straightened out before getting married.When times are going not so well overall that pressure is removed and people are more likely to let their personality/the way they are be out in the open on both sides of the equation. IP: Logged |
mockingbird
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posted May 19, 2013 01:22 PM
I'd be interested to see this info per country broken down along income strata.------------------
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