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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]They are also the ones who marry more. See how that makes the statistic a little less correct? Other states aren't even getting enough people together to marry. The same thing with this statistic about college women. They are divorcing because they can, not because they are more "Selfish".[/quote]

65% of people with bachelor's degrees marry, 53% with some college or only HS.

The issue is the statistics of "staying married" is considered "stayed married" if they make it 20 years. 78% stay married if they have a college education, only 50% for some college and 40% for only HS.

But so many get divorced after 20 years, don't have that statistic. I blame viagra. LOL.[/quote]

How does this relate to the first statistic? If I'm reading this right, 65% of people marry with bachelor's degrees. I assume at least 50% of these people are women, maybe more. 51% of college women marry and stay married for 20 years and the other 14% divorce and of those 14%, 90% of the divorces are initiated by women? So, 12.6% of college educated women marry and then initiate divorce before 20 years are up?[/quote]

Say you have 100 women

35 are single
50 are married
15 are divorced (13 ish are initiated by women... but it's really 70% OP's stat is off so really 10 ish are initiated by women)

So yea... your stats work out.[/quote]

That’s about what I see. I’d say about half of the 13 are women who just had a lot of options and their partner was just letting them do all the work and the other half were not in healthy relationships. Educated women though seem to be the group that stays married the most of all groups. This is why the wording of these statistics are so off. It almost makes it seem like college women don’t marry or stay married as much when in fact that isn’t the case. [/quote]

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