Wednesday, May 05, 2004

I'm sure you've all seen the recent study showing that divorce is most likelyto occur within the fouth year of marriage, so the fifth anniversary is golden. That is an extremely interesting statistic, but here are some more statistics they need to work out to help us get the complete picture:

- Divorce rate based on number of years of co-habitation (ie. can the same effect be achieved by cohabiting for five years?)
- Divorce rate based on number of years of dating, years of dating before co-habitation, years of dating and co-habitation before marriage
- Break-up rate of co-habitation relationships
- Divorce rate based on age, education, income, etc. at time of marriage
- Divorce rate based on difference in age, education, income etc. at time of marriage and throughout marriage.
- Divorce rate based on number and ages of children and how many years of marriage they waited before having children
- Divorce rate based on square footage per person in the home
- In what percentage of divorces was the main contributing factor to the divorce a problem that was identified by the couple as a potential problem before they entered into marriage? (ie. given that hindsight is 20/20, should they have seen it coming?)

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