Median duration of marriages in DC

[Anonymous]

Is this correct? Sounds like an error to me.


"With median duration of 10.5 years, Washington, DC, is again an outlier."

https://usafacts.org/articles/how-does-marriage-vary-by-state/#:~:text=On%20average%2C%20marriages%20are%20shortest,DC%2C%20is%20again%20an%20outlier.

[Anonymous]

Not surprised since DC has a lot of young people, people who delay marriage, and people who die early. All of that brings down the median length of marriage. Not a ton of people here who married at 19 and stayed in DC to 99.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Not surprised since DC has a lot of young people, people who delay marriage, and people who die early. All of that brings down the median length of marriage. Not a ton of people here who married at 19 and stayed in DC to 99.

That paints a very bleak picture but makes sense why its so short.

[Anonymous]

It sounds most people marry at 35 and divorce by 45.

[Anonymous]

DC also has a disproportionate number of morons. The folks that got us almost $40 trillion in debt work in DC. I’ve travel to DC regularly and meet with Senators, Congressmen, staffers, various departments, etc. It’s certainly not the best and brightest. Many are just dumb. Others are intelligent but can’t comprehend basic common sense. Others speak very eloquently but are too incompetent to run a lemonade stand. It’s very disheartening. They can’t run their basic job efficiently, so I’m not surprised they can’t succeed in their personal household. I’ve met very few that work in the federal government that are capable people (certainly less than 1%).

[Anonymous]

It's a stressful place to live. Never lived in DC itself but lived in MD and NoVa for 9 years.

I wonder if we'd still be married if we never lived there, or got out sooner...

Oh well. Can't go back in time.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's a stressful place to live. Never lived in DC itself but lived in MD and NoVa for 9 years.

I wonder if we'd still be married if we never lived there, or got out sooner...

Oh well. Can't go back in time.

No. My parents are immigrants though they didn't come here for economic reasons. They lived in DC and Nova for the past 55 yrs and recently separated in their 60s. Dad decided this area was too expensive and Mom wanted to continue living here for her kids and grandkids but dad was also a cheat so.

[Anonymous]

I think DC divorce is also due to people from different parts of the country marrying each other. There are huge cultural differences between someone from Kansas City vs. Boston.

[Anonymous]

DC is also a city being compared to whole states.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It sounds most people marry at 35 and divorce by 45.

Marrying at 35? So old to start.

[Anonymous]

You all seem to be missing the obvious. DC is just a city. It is 50% lower income African Americans -- a group correlated with very unstable marital arrangements. Of the rest, no wacko groups like churches or whatever that would put social pressure on marriages.

The rest of DC's qualities (high income, high education, higher marriage age) should actually correlate with much lower divorce rates. So no, having a low marriage duration is not because people are politically immoral or something dumb.

[Anonymous]

I think there are lots of starter marriages. Young people come here straight out of college. Then marry their college sweethearts. 2-5 years later they divorce.

[Anonymous]

I don’t believe this stat is about the length of a marriage before divorce but about the current length of all marriages - ie a snapshot in time that is more about the age of the population and the age in which the majority of the people get married (later, in DC).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think there are lots of starter marriages. Young people come here straight out of college. Then marry their college sweethearts. 2-5 years later they divorce.

I know what a starter home is, but there is no such thing as a starter marriage. I married when I was 24 and my wife was 21. We’ve been married 29 years. Marriage is about commitment. If problems arise you work through them together. DC is full of government employees and elected officials. Those are folks who can’t commit to anything and can’t solve problems. If they could, they wouldn’t be working for the federal government. It’s a cesspool of incompetence that spreads to other parts of their lives.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DC also has a disproportionate number of morons. The folks that got us almost $40 trillion in debt work in DC. I’ve travel to DC regularly and meet with Senators, Congressmen, staffers, various departments, etc. It’s certainly not the best and brightest. Many are just dumb. Others are intelligent but can’t comprehend basic common sense. Others speak very eloquently but are too incompetent to run a lemonade stand. It’s very disheartening. They can’t run their basic job efficiently, so I’m not surprised they can’t succeed in their personal household. I’ve met very few that work in the federal government that are capable people (certainly less than 1%).

You do realize that those elected to congress come from the rest of the U.S., not DC, right? Even the staffers--those are often campaign workers/people from the home district. Don't blame the city for the people sent here to govern the whole country. We didn't choose them. We don't even have representation in Congress.