In contrast, more than ninety percent of American women with four-year college degrees wait until after they are married to have children. College-educated young adults foresee a brighter economic future that can strengthen marriages. They may live with a partner first, postpone marriage until after earning their graduate’s degrees or establishing themselves in careers, but they are content to wait until marriage before having children. Moreover, their marriages are longer lasting. SInce 1980, the divorce rate has dropped faster for those with college degrees. About one sixth of their marriages end in divorce in the first 10 years, compared with nearly one out of two marriages among people without high school degrees. College- educated Americans in our new economy stick to long-term marriage as a context for children who are fully-grown.
In the 1970s, there was arrangements cohabitation not being married but living together and having sexual intercourse, which began to increase, and divorce rates grew, it seemed as so marriage might have faded away. Forty years later it remains an important part of American life. Its older role’s first step into adulthood, but in …show more content…
Every situation is slightly different, but there are few popular reasons (Eisenhard).
“Not all relationships are meant to last forever. Sometimes a couple sticks through it all the way to the altar. They might make it work for a few years. Maybe they’ll even have children. But sooner or later they might find themselves in front of a judge, begging for a divorce. By that time, each party is angrily declaring, “I never should have married you!”
“Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads which sew people together through the years”- Simone Signoret
“A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person”- Mignon
In the 1970s, there was arrangements cohabitation not being married but living together and having sexual intercourse, which began to increase, and divorce rates grew, it seemed as so marriage might have faded away. Forty years later it remains an important part of American life. Its older role’s first step into adulthood, but in …show more content…
Every situation is slightly different, but there are few popular reasons (Eisenhard).
“Not all relationships are meant to last forever. Sometimes a couple sticks through it all the way to the altar. They might make it work for a few years. Maybe they’ll even have children. But sooner or later they might find themselves in front of a judge, begging for a divorce. By that time, each party is angrily declaring, “I never should have married you!”
“Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads which sew people together through the years”- Simone Signoret
“A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person”- Mignon