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Originally posted by DeltAlum
Sad, but the last I heard only around half of all marriages last.
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Not to be totally nitpicky (and I will get back to the subject at hand), but there are numerous studies (had to read them in gender studies classes, would totally go and get them, but they are in storage) done on both sides of the pro- or anti-marriage arguments that blow the myth of the 50% divorce rate to shreds. Basically, it comes down to the misreading of statistics; it was merely an approximation of how things MIGHT become if the divorce rate grew at the same rate as it did in the late 60s and early 70s.
This, however, concerns me more:
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Originally posted by Kristin AGD
A close friend of mine has twin girls; she just has a new baby last week. So she now has three kids under three!
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Ack, I can only begin to imagine the insane stress that something like that can cause. I can imagine that it could drive someone into something like an early midlife crisis--if he was the family's sole provider, having three tiny mouths to feed (all under three!) was certainly overwhelming. I mean, one of my grandmothers had 13 kids, and at no time did she have three toddlers or babies running around at the same time. That could put insane stress on the strongest of marriages. Think about it--three years ago, it was just them. They could essentially do anything they wanted, whenever. In a relatively short amount of time, their lives and economic situation changed drastically. Now, they won't have the old freedom for at least 18 years--if at all. Just thinking about that scares me!