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40% first marriages in US end in divorce. Second marriages have 60%. 2/3 initiated by women

You just need to know few people to qualify for "multiple times"

com2kid | parent | next
This number keeps coming up.

A: It hasn't been true for multiple generations. The # comes from when divorce was first legalized and there was a huge boom in divorces right away.

B: The number of failed marriages is dramatically increased by "frequent fliers" who get divorced multiple times.

College educated adults have a 25% divorce rate.

College education adults only have a 15% chance of their 2nd marriage failing.

helterskelter2 | parent | next
> 2/3 initiated by women

You say this like 2/3 of divorce is the fault of women, but IME they usually have good reason to do so.

afavour | root | parent | next
Agreed. If we’re talking inconvenient truths, I see far, far more husbands being useless married (and particularly parental) partners than I do wives. And I say this as a man.
shdjhdfh | root | parent | next
I'm fairly sure they meant entirely the opposite.
TZubiri | root | parent
I’m assuming “initiated by” is an objective legal term for filing the divorce. which ironically is probably oppositely correlated to fault in divorces, i.e if the husband cheats, the wife files for divorce, and it was the husband’s ‘fault’ as they breaches the marital contract
missedthecue | root | parent
The figure comes from interview data of post-divorce couples regarding motives for divorce (and a few other questions, i.e. regret etc). It's not literal paperwork filing data.
poilcn | parent | next
There is no conspiracy in it

Divorce implies involvement of a government institution and women feel like a fish in water when it comes to bureaucracy, while men avoid it

That's why in same-sex pairs women are twice likely to call cops and file a lawsuit regarding house abuse and men half as often

tenacious_tuna | parent
It's a large jump from "divorces happen a lot" to "many startup founders have their highschool sweetheart honeypot them for child support"
bilbo0s | root | parent
In fairness, it seems like everyone is a startup founder. I can't tell you the number of CV's and resumes I've seen that have CEO of something I've never heard of on them.

Just saying that being a startup founder is not particularly rare or special the past twenty years. You don't even have to do particularly well with your startup. People probably get targeted for a measly 750K exit. I think on HN we get a twisted opinion of what is big money to most people.

HaZeust | root | parent
>" I think on HN we get a twisted opinion of what is big money to most people."

>"a measly 750K exit"

No kidding, lol.