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The reasons for that decline have complex sociological explanations. (Oh, and it is not just the Boomers. The younger the individuals, the more likely they will get divorced.)
People are getting married later in part because lifespans have grown. This allows young people to stay single longer, establish their careers and settle economically before starting families. This making the cultural habits conducive to long lasting marriage harder to develop, particularly as the economic benefits of marriage decline in relative terms.
Marriage has lost its special status in society. Thus, for example, co-habitation has become socially acceptable and the law and the courts have followed suit by making many of the legal protections of marriage available to cohabiting couples.
In terms of the law the watershed moment was the advent in the early 1970s of "no-fault" divorce. Prior to that, serious legal and financial penalties accrued to individuals if they were deemed to have been the cause of a divorce - for adultery for example - and a marriage license was deemed a legally binding contract. With "no fault" divorce, marriage became the one legal contract that government would NOT enforce.
We shape the law and the law then shapes us, and as the marriage license became just an expensive piece of paper - although it still affords some important benefits, particularly in tax law and for SS - young people have come not to value it.
Further, at the risk of inflaming some highly inflammable people, gay marriage may have worsened this decline. Understandably the gay community wanted it both in its own right and as a signal of legal equality. It's broad and generally quick acceptance in light of the Supreme Court ruling suggests that the gay community got that.
However, by making marriage a political badge of honor and, as a cultural matter, by making it seem less like a covenant and more like a political transaction, gay marriage unintentionally further trivialized marriage at a societal level. By making marriage more common without solemnizing it, gay marriage may have made marriage overall a cultural shrug of the shoulders.
Throw in the relative decline of religious belief in an increasingly secularized culture - it is interesting that the marriages that tend to endure, statistically, are those where the couple has deep religious convictions. For these and other reasons you have a recipe for the decline of marriage, especially for the young who tend to be the first indicators of cultural change.
Put another way, in a cultural sense, the boomers are as much effect as cause. Marriage simply, in the tumult of social change, has lost its value. The results of that, however, have not been necessarily good, but there it is.
It's because of the changes in the culture over time. These changes in our culture have changed the way men and women conduct relationships and our attitudes towards it. They're running from an old script in a new world. Men more-so than women I believe.
This change is driven by women. This is not me saying that women are to blame or hating on them by the way. It's just that women in general dictate the way the dating scene goes, being the gatekeepers of sex. Not that they don't have problems of their own.
Boomers were born between 1946-1964. In these times there were clear gender roles. The men were the main providers. While it's not true that every woman was a stay at home wife as this was really something only more financially well-off families could afford, this was still the case.
Casual sex was heavily stigmatised, as was divorce. People would date with the intention of marrying and having a family, women in particular. They'd be a lot more careful about who they chose to have sex with, and they'd only have sex within relationships/marriage for the most part.
This all changed when the birth control pill became widely available, which kicked off the swinging 60s. Suddenly women could have sex without as much of a risk of pregnancy, and they did. The stigma around casual sex was removed slightly, and has continue to be removed further ever since. This was the birth of "hook up culture".
Of course women don't choose who to hook-up with based on who will make the best husband, because that's not what a hook-up is about, it's about fun. They choose based on what turns them on the most, which is not the same thing. A stable and respectable "nice guy" has a different appeal than a sexy, exciting "bad boy".
Women mock that idea but all think that Titanic was a romantic movie - it's a movie about a woman remembering with fondness the time she cheated on her fiancee with a good looking but broke artist who fucked her on a boat, no mention of her husband and children. Many romantic/erotic novels written for women share a similar theme.
Along with this women began to make gains when it came to education and employment. The more they could provide for themselves the less they needed a provider, and the less that factored into their partner choice.
How many boomer women for example ended up "settling" with a guy who was a great provider but they weren't that hot for sexually, because they couldn't marry the hotter guy? Many I believe. They chose stability and practicality over fun and exciting. But then as the culture has become more liberal, people now go for fun more than stability, at least until they reach their 30s and 40s. We also have more of a sex-driven culture today.
Basically the social influences that kept people together before this time have been increasingly eroded away.
What can happen with women also if they marry young in this way is that when they get older they see other women enjoying single life, dating, hooking up, and they feel like they missed out. Particularly older women.
When I was younger I had a thing for hooking up with older women ("milfs"), and by far the easiest ones to get laid with and the horniest were newly divorced women in their late 30s/early 40s who wanted to feel young again. They'd admit to me that they were never sexually satisfied in their marriages, and that was probably a big reason for it.
And retards say it is because of modern feminism women although these boomers grow up with traditional/religious values since they are from 1960s. Many grandmas dont even know to use Smartphone. Do you really think these grandmas or grandpa are on twitter or any social media or what shit. So it is then because of religious/traditional reason rather than feminism. Even my mum dont know a shit about feminism. Most old women dont know a shit about it in my experience. Also marrying young which is encouraged by redpill incels who see women in her late 20s not marriage material and religious people who expect women to marry young is also a reason
Because some of them settled when young, for one reason or another if it wasn't for love. Social pressure, financial stability or tradition for example. And now they are realizing divorce is an option. Also women now have the power to initiate divorce, so of course the rates are up.
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u Your generation was still living in your parents' basement at age 25; we were married and had two kids at age 25.
Gen X is pushing 50. Boomers are pushing 70 now.
Prior to boomers the divorce rate was lower because they understood that the love that makes a marriage is not primarily a feeling, but rather its a decision. Unfortunately, two consecutive generations were decimated by global wars and the men who came back were too traumatised to bestow genuine masculinity on their sons. Western Society began to fragment in the 60s and by the 90s it was a shadow of previous generations. Millennials have a snowflake's chance in hell of rebuilding a society with sincere moral fibre, sound ethics & integrity and a community spirit instead of the destructive, selfish attitude that's been prevalent since Reagan and Thatcher were in charge.
With selfish attitudes comes a tendency to demand in a relationship instead of to give. Demands from one partner eventually get met with a hearty "fuck off" by the other. Enter the divorce lawyers.
Family/Divorce laws, hook up culture, feminism.
50% end in Divorce 80% of cases are filed by women and men keep kids 10% of the time. Maybe 15_20% stay together for the kids, religious or social pressures.
You want marriage rates to go up?
Teach women to be wives not hoes.
Change any biased laws against husbands and fathers
Eliminate no fault Divorce.
And alimony.
Limit child support to actual fathers only
Teach men to lead relationships again
Even then it's in doubt but it's a much more even field for a man to get on then. Otherwise you can kick rocks. 🪨
No it honestly boils down to women living in a fantasy world thanks to cartoons with princes, and they think men should be this way and when they discover that men really aren't this way in the real world they get mad but will try to change him to get liking and if this doesn't work... Divorce... I will never trust a woman
Because they were the first generation to be having premarital sex and not caring about Godly morals and values. The generation of rebellion and drugs, rock and roll. Back then they understood what was required of them. But the toxic messages from the media and those in the entertainment industry caused all of this and now it has culturally changed our society in both the US and the UK.
While around 50% of marriages end in divorce, around 1/3 or 1/2 of them are second marriages, the rate for divorce for first time marriages is around the 60% mark and the rate of divorce for virgin woman is around 10%. Also people who marry before 18 and after 35 are the least likely to divorce.
Women don't need men as much.
Men aren't manly
Woman have become more fiscal leechy and use courts as welfare subsidized their lifestyle.
Women have more freedom. Before a woman kinda needed a man. Not all the time but financially you were better off.
Social media competitive lifestyle
Boomers have reached that age when their kids are grown and gone and they are examining their lives. Subsequent generations will have their day as well.
Because younger people aren't getting married. And "all time low", Since when, 1980? More like, recent down trend due to low marriage rates!
Boomers in their younger years often believed that marriage in itself was a goal rather than marriage to the correct person.
My guess is no fault divorce making it easier than ever for one partner to take the other to the cleaners.
If you mean 50 years old, that's gen x. Or do you mean 50%?
Because they tried to do things differently and it didn't work. Experiment over.
Could be myriad things. Mostly distraction from online dating, spending money online, etc.
Bill Gates is also getting divorced lol
Money as always
Feminism..
Not enough money.
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