Harvard Study: Biggest factor in divorce? Husbands employment status

King Ghidorah
King Ghidorah Members Posts: 917 ✭✭✭✭✭
edited July 2016 in For The Grown & Sexy
Financial stress and fights over money can eat away at a marriage. But do they cause divorce? That’s a more complicated matter.
A Harvard University study suggests that neither financial strains nor women's increased
ability to get out of an unhappy marriage, starting in the 1970s, is typically the main reason for a split.
The big factor, Harvard sociology professor Alexandra Killewald found, is the husband's employment status. For the past four decades, she discovered, husbands who aren’t employed full time have a 3.3 percent chance of getting divorced in any given year, compared with 2.5 percent for husbands employed full time. In other words, their marriages are one-third more likely to break up.

Examining 46 years of data on more than 6,300 married couples in the U.S., Killewald found a big shift in the risk of divorce in the mid-1970s. Couples married before 1975 were likelier to split up if women and men divided the housework equally, perhaps because the husband saw a threat to his traditional role in the household. Since 1975, housework hasn’t been much of a factor. The guy's job has.
“Wives have more freedom in how they ‘do’ marriage,” Killewald said, but husbands are still expected to be the breadwinner.
The study, published in the American Sociological Review, didn't include same-sex couples. Nor did it address men who choose to stay home with the kids. The vast majority of men without a full-time job in the sample were involuntarily unemployed.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-07-28/don-t-blame-divorce-on-money-ask-did-the-husband-have-a-job?utm_content=business&utm_campaign=socialflow-organic&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&cmpid==socialflow-twitter-business


How the ? I get on this research ? , I could have told these ? that

Comments

  • rip.dilla
    rip.dilla Members Posts: 17,412 ✭✭✭✭✭
    3.3%? That's miniscule... and I guess you'd have to factor in racial/cultural aspects too of the subjects



    I read almost all the time about wealthy individuals (men) getting divorces too so it's all inconclusive really



    Compatibility is the biggest issue regarding failed marriages anywhere on the planet
  • mrrealone
    mrrealone Members Posts: 3,793 ✭✭✭✭✭
    A Harvard University study suggests that neither financial strains nor women's increased
    ability to get out of an unhappy marriage, starting in the 1970s, is typically the main reason for a split.



    Hmm. Interesting, cause I hear all the time from divorced couples or ppl who were in long relationships that finances and communication are things they wished were better in they relationship....
  • 7figz
    7figz Members Posts: 15,294 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited July 2016
    Interestingly enough, it's probably the biggest factor in marriage too.
  • 2stepz_ahead
    2stepz_ahead Guests, Members, Writer, Content Producer Posts: 32,324 ✭✭✭✭✭
    i have heard alot of stories about divorcing over money......? is stupid to me.

    respect -communication solved most problem
  • atribecalledgabi
    atribecalledgabi Members, Moderators Posts: 14,063 Regulator
    That nothing ass percentage aside lol, we're in a crazy time now. Men can do what women traditionally did (maintain a home) and women can do what men did (support themselves financially and protection-wise...weapons ain't gender specific). It's come to a point where men don't need women and women don't need men outside of sex (and even then liberties can be taken). We're at a point in our evolution where we gotta regroup and figure out roles and why we need each other. It's interesting, confusing and scary at the same damn time. ? makes me wish I was born before the 90s sometimes...everything wasn't a damn thesis paper.
  • rip.dilla
    rip.dilla Members Posts: 17,412 ✭✭✭✭✭
    That nothing ass percentage aside lol, we're in a crazy time now. Men can do what women traditionally did (maintain a home) and women can do what men did (support themselves financially and protection-wise...weapons ain't gender specific). It's come to a point where men don't need women and women don't need men outside of sex (and even then liberties can be taken). We're at a point in our evolution where we gotta regroup and figure out roles and why we need each other. It's interesting, confusing and scary at the same damn time. ? makes me wish I was born before the 90s sometimes...everything wasn't a damn thesis paper.



    Well some modernists think that's what marriage is or consists of anyway: a signed piece of document that legally binds two individuals together until...
  • zzombie
    zzombie Members Posts: 11,280 ✭✭✭✭✭
    That nothing ass percentage aside lol, we're in a crazy time now. Men can do what women traditionally did (maintain a home) and women can do what men did (support themselves financially and protection-wise...weapons ain't gender specific). It's come to a point where men don't need women and women don't need men outside of sex (and even then liberties can be taken). We're at a point in our evolution where we gotta regroup and figure out roles and why we need each other. It's interesting, confusing and scary at the same damn time. ? makes me wish I was born before the 90s sometimes...everything wasn't a damn thesis paper.

    you mean we are at a point in time in which society is about to collapse
  • atribecalledgabi
    atribecalledgabi Members, Moderators Posts: 14,063 Regulator
    zzombie wrote: »
    That nothing ass percentage aside lol, we're in a crazy time now. Men can do what women traditionally did (maintain a home) and women can do what men did (support themselves financially and protection-wise...weapons ain't gender specific). It's come to a point where men don't need women and women don't need men outside of sex (and even then liberties can be taken). We're at a point in our evolution where we gotta regroup and figure out roles and why we need each other. It's interesting, confusing and scary at the same damn time. ? makes me wish I was born before the 90s sometimes...everything wasn't a damn thesis paper.

    you mean we are at a point in time in which society is about to collapse

    Maybe, maybe not. This is what billions of years of evolution and knowledge will do. *shrug*
  • CapitalB
    CapitalB Members Posts: 24,556 ✭✭✭✭✭
    divorcing over finances!!?
    i believe it..

    iv always stated wives are glorified hoes..
    its jus they only have to ? one trick for the rest of their lives. lol

    let that ? stop makin money and she gone..
    let that ? stop ? and he gone..

    if that ? aint prostitution iunno what is. lol
  • KingFreeman
    KingFreeman Members Posts: 13,731 ✭✭✭✭✭
    https://youtu.be/3dGhsRsHXP8

    Chris Rocks ? the messenger had real life gems.
  • Rasta.
    Rasta. Members Posts: 9,342 ✭✭✭✭✭
    divorcing over finances!!?
    i believe it..

    iv always stated wives are glorified hoes..
    its jus they only have to ? one trick for the rest of their lives. lol

    let that ? stop makin money and she gone..
    let that ? stop ? and he gone..

    if that ? aint prostitution iunno what is. lol

    They dont hear you tho "I married her cos I love her"
    I married him for security =Money
  • dallas' 4 eva
    dallas' 4 eva Members Posts: 11,216 ✭✭✭✭✭
    https://youtu.be/3dGhsRsHXP8

    Chris Rocks ? the messenger had real life gems.

    Chris Rock is GOAT and he broke that ? down to a science.

    'If he lose his job the countdown has begun'

    'If she aint ? like I'm ? then get the ? out!'