Marriage Has Declined Because The “Sex For Stability” Model Is Outdated
Lots of societal hand-wringing of late about the decline of marriage. If you zoom out a bit, the divorce rate is actually decreasing in America, although it’s increasing for older people, the so-called “Silver Splitters,” which may indicate that people cannot hold a marriage together with semi-increasing life span (statistically, when you factor in COVID, I believe life span is actually decreasing for both genders over the last half-decade).
It is very hard to generalize or talk about marriage in the aggregate, because every marriage is very unique and they occur at the intersection of 900 different things, including:
- How old you were when you met
- Your attitudes about kids
- Your attitudes about sex
- Your professions and your goals therein
- Your religious background
- Where in America you live
- Your familial history with divorce
- Etc.
So again, it’s hard to discuss it in the aggregate, but we can semi-try a little bit here.
