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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Lots of defensive divorcées on this thread, huh.[/quote]

Honestly, the divorced people I know are doing great. They can support their households and their lives are honestly simpler. And they are super close to their kids. Really. But maybe it’s just the company I keep (or my “pedigree.”).[/quote]

NP and yeah, that’s kind of how DCUM works. Do you not get that? The demographic is skewed. How ridiculous to look at your circle of high-income friends, shrug and be like “divorce is NBD.” [/quote]

Even those people are delusional.

In high income neighborhoods everyone is doing fine, but unless you’re in a wealth bracket in the tens of millions, your children’s lifestyle and opportunities have changed for the worse.

Maybe they still have college funds but now they’re limited to state colleges instead of the top universities they once aspired to attend. Their married parents might have been planning on lavish weddings and providing a down payment for a house whereas now they’re all focusing on rebuilding wealth.

The conclusion that children are significantly worse off after a divorce doesn’t mean everyone is living in a slum. It means you have significantly LESS than if those children’s parents had stayed married.

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Well, yeah. People tend to have less money when they maintain separate homes than when they pool their resources. This study says that’s a huge part of the effect. Not exactly “eye-opening,” and not what a lot of people in this thread are implying.

I’m married btw, but I wouldn’t stay married just for the $. Would you? [/quote]

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