Bad Idea to Marry Someone with Divorced Parents?

[warren_zevon]

Looking for some advice here.

Basically there is a girl I know acquaintance wise. We have basically a professional relationship and nothing more. However I am very interested in her romantically, but I only want to go down that road if it has real potential.

What concerns me is she has a step father. I don't know if her father is deceased or if her parents divorced but I suspect the latter is more likely.

However I am apprehensive about getting involved with someone that has divorced parents. Good evidence shows daughters of divorced parents are 60% more likely to get a divorce themselves. There is also the issue of complex family structure that I don't want to have with multiple sets of in-laws that hate each other being a prospect.

Part of me wants to get to know her better and see, but part of me says that a product of a broken marriage is a bad idea. Thoughts?

[ArrowheadSW]

Well, no one has a perfect background when you think of it. In all cases, I would suggest pre-marital counseling regardless of a person's background. There is just so much to take into consideration when thinking of marrying someone.

[Redstang88]

Big jump from divorced to “broken home”
Lotta broken and dysfunctional couples too, so that’s not necessarily the best tell anyway

[warren_zevon]

Its not a big jump at all. One implies the other. Let me put it this way.

If someone's parents are divorced then they are from a broken home.

[Anonymous]

Having divorced parents means nothing. You are way overthinking this.

[warren_zevon]

I don't think its fair to say that it means "nothing" when solid empirical evidence says otherwise. The question is more of what I should do about it.

[Guy13]

We tend to grow up into our Parents...

[LazerBean]

It's definitely not a plus and usually a negative.

[Anonymous]

Does she have kids?

[warren_zevon]

No she does not

[Anonymous]

Yeah, don't marry and die alone

[Con29]

Yeah because of the track record