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<p>Americans under the age of 45 have found a novel way to rebel against their elders: <a href="http://www.bloombergquint.com/pursuits/2018/09/25/millennials-are-causing-the-u-s-divorce-rate-to-plummet" target="_blank" rel="noopener">They’re staying married</a>.</p>
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<p>New data show younger couples are approaching relationships very differently from baby boomers, who married young, divorced, remarried and so on. Generation X and especially millennials are being pickier about who they marry, tying the knot at older ages when education, careers and finances are on track. The result is a U.S. divorce rate that dropped 18 percent from 2008 to 2016, according to an <a href="https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/h2sk6/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">analysis</a> by University of Maryland sociology professor Philip Cohen.</p>
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<p>Sometimes superficially good news conceals much worse news. This is the case with the latest divorce rate statistics.</p>
<p>The Shrillennial divorce rate is lower than previous generations because</p>
<p>1. they are getting married later in life when they have fewer sexual market options to tempt them,</p>
<p>2. fewer of them are getting married (marriage has become a signifier of UMC membership) and</p>
<p>3. PoundMeToo has scared them to retreat to their fapatoriums.</p>
<p>These are not good developments from a society-wide perspective.</p>
<p>From Doom Chesterton:</p>
<blockquote><p>in the year 2050 the last economically viable unmarried heterosexual man will have his career destroyed by vague, decades old accusations from the last non-lesbian female, and the divorce rate will go to zero</p>
<p>women hardest hit</p></blockquote>
<p>haha. Delayed marriage is really the killer tell of a culture in decline. Delayed marriage works to everyone&#8217;s benefit in one context: when women are kept (relatively) sexually pure during their premarital years, largely to avoid the &#8220;alpha widowhood&#8221; syndrome which occurs when a woman has supped of alpha male staffs and consequently can never fully commit her love to the beta male with whom she will inevitably settle.</p>
<p>What&#8217;s the difference between a woman who marries later in life after her body has been spent by a decade or more riding the cock carousel, versus a woman who marries young, divorces, and remarries? If anything, the latter likely has spread for fewer cocks than the former. In this case, a higher divorce rate could signify an emotionally and genitally healthier marriage market.</p>
<p>And the latter likely has more kids. A dried up husk of a careerist battlecunt shrike at the ripe old age of 37 would be lucky to pop out 1.2 non-autistic sprog with her soypplicating beta hubby.</p>
<p>If you&#8217;re interested in making America great again, what you&#8217;d look for is an egalitarian trend in marriage &#8212; more long-lasting marriages in the middle and lower classes &#8212; and more younger marriages with larger families. You&#8217;d also do like Based Italy and make it harder for women to initiate divorce, since women are responsible for 70% of family breakups.</p>
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