Here's a chart from the CDC (http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/ad/ad323.pdf). I want you to think about what this chart says about marriage and divorce/disruption, and also some of the reasoning pitfalls you might fall in when looking at this chart if you aren't careful.
It appears from the CDC chart on marriage age and disruption that the younger the people getting married, the quicker these younger couples get divorced or their marriages are disrupted. The under 18 year old line is the steepest which indicates that these couples are the ones that more quickly become divorced after marriage. One must also be careful though when looking at charts such as these so as not to make an error in reasoning. For example, one can't overgeneralize by stating that all young couples end their marriages in divorce because this is not the case at all. This does also not mean that older couples don't get divorced either because many older couples can get divorced as well.
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I agree with you, Chelsea. My husband and I got married very young due to his active duty status in the military. We have been married for almost 8 years now, and we are still going strong! I think the key when marrying young is to grow closer to each other as individuals and as a unit; instead of making life goals separately and trying to push them together and hope for the best, plan your lives together and keep dating each other. I understand the trend and why it happens: Unexpected pregnancies, puppy love, family pressure. I understand that the word "divorce" is no longer taboo, it's something people do if life gets too hard. Once a couple decides to remove divorce as an option, and focuses on success, these numbers will change dramatically.
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It is obvious looking at the chart that it confirms the sentiment that the younger one marries, the more likely the marriage will break up, and also that it will break up in a quicker amount of time. It is untrue to say, however, that because they were young, the marriage broke up and that if you are older, you will not get a divorce. While the chart shows that it is less likely that an older couple get divorced, divorces happen all over the age spectrum and it takes various amounts of time for it to happen.
ReplyDeleteThere is a common factor with all ages though that most marriages start out strong but they all, over the years, are put through tests and so the beginning of most marriages are fine, but the longer it is into the marriage, the greater a strain there is on the relationship because of multiple factors, no matter what age the couple is.
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i feel like this happens because younger individuals usually rush into things without being completely sure of themselves and the love that they feel. I feel like that it takes time for one to know who they are completely and then find someone based off that. Younger individuals don't really know who they are when they "fall in love" and get married and then they end up getting divorced because they realize that they are different than they were when they first got married. But I do agree that they are only showing a small spectrum and not showing that people change even as they get older they change as well. Marriage is a commit that most people have a hard time sticking to but i do believe that if one knows him/herself first then they will be more like to have a longer marriage.
DeleteI agree I feel that younger people are rushing there life's and figuring out once they are married this wasn't what they wanted. I feel that we should wait and when the time is right you will know when you should get married
DeleteAccording to the CDC chart on marriage age and disruption, as the years go by, number of marriages disruption has increase especially with the under 18 years. old. Basically, they are still in high school and marriage will probably be too much for them to handle if you're like 15 or 16 years old. People can't just jump to conclusion that the first marriage for young teenagers will end with a divorce because it's not true. The reasons why the divorce rate is increasing can be financial or social reasonings. Besides, some marriages last forever and some of them don't.
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You raise a good point that there are other social factors present in shaping the outcome of all marriages, regardless of age of marriage. However, the financial issues which arise throughout marriage may be a mediating variable to the increased percentages of divorce in younger couples. Because these younger couples are less financially sound, they are then more inclined to separate. The age of the couples are not directly attributed to divorce rate.
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Though the graph shows that the younger individuals get married, the higher percentage of those first marriages get disrupted, there is information that is not provided by this chart that is key to truly understanding it. Firstly, this graph does not depict the age of both spouses, but only the wife. Perhaps younger women get married to significantly older men and this is the factor that explains marriage disruption but not actually age of the wife as a predictor. Additional explanations may be that younger people tend to get married more and perhaps the increasing number of marriages leads to a greater percentage of disruption due to lack of life experience or planning before committing to a long term relationship.
ReplyDeleteI agree, if one looks closely at the graph is states "wife age at marriage", so what about the husband? We are unsure of his age and the circumstances of the couple which can be the reason for disruption in marriage. This chart just gives us the idea that maybe marrying at a young age is not the best idea.
DeleteFrom the chart we can see that if a women marries young they are more likely to end up divorced vs elder women. However as Steph pointed out the graph alone does not provide enough information to allow us to make a proper assumption. There is a lot of information that is not provided that could play an important role in marriage such as the other spouses age and the income of the newly weds.
ReplyDeleteThis chart shows that, as first marriages grow longer in duration, there is a higher likelihood or chance of divorce. Also, with the different lines indicating ages of the wife at marriage, it seems that women who were married at a younger age tend to have a higher chance of divorce. One must be careful when looking at this chart because there are many important factors that have been left out of this chart. Some important factors can include the husbands' ages, how long the couple was in a relationship prior to marriage, etc. This information should not be taken exactly either. It is not safe to conclude that just because a couple has been married for 20 years that they will be very likely to have a divorce. Even after 20 years of marriage a couple could be very happy together. People should be careful as to not overgeneralize what this chart is showing to every couple in the world.
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This article shows the correlation between the age of a woman when she gets married and the rate of divorce as the years go on. This may be because as we age our interests and desires out of life change. If the couple changes together they will grow stronger but if they stop wanting the same things out of life then the couple may fall apart. The younger people are when they get married the more likely they are to change in different directions because they are growing and learning at a swifter pace--Danielle Hoppel
ReplyDeleteThe chart describes women, and how young they were when they got married, along with the duration of their marriage. But the chart doesn't show you that their could be error to this data, because it doesn't tell you why the couples got a divorce. The chart doesn't mention why the couples could have gotten married. Many people in our culture today would over generalize and say that if you marry young that you have a high rate of getting divorce, but this chart doesn't show the long lasting relationships that many have had even if they married young.
ReplyDeleteThis chart seems to show that younger women seem to have a more likely chance of having their marriage disrupted then those of an older age. The chart also shows that within time, all marriage's (no matter what age) disruption rate seems to increase. The marriages with younger women rate grows at a faster pace then the marriages with older women. However they all seem to increase as time goes on.
ReplyDeleteSome of the pitfalls of this chart are that it only shows studies from one year (1995) which depending on your research, might not be completely reliable. Also, this chart does not show why the couples got married in the first place. Every relationship is different and some are built on weaker foundations than others. Many people might look at this chart and just automatically believe that marriages at a young age don't last. This is a dangerous over generalization risk.
After looking at this chart, it is evident that the younger women are at the age of marriage, the more likely it is that this marriage will be disrupted. That is to say as age increases, so does the stability of marriage, as the graph suggests. However there are many important factors to take into consideration when looking at this graph. The age of the other spouse is not given, and these results are only given from one year (1995), which was 19 years ago. Times have changed, and it is important to not overgeneralize after looking at this graph and automatically assume that all young marriages end in divorce, because this is not true. Another interesting part of this graph is that as time goes on the risk of divorce is increased for all ages, suggesting that the longer a marriage lasts, the higher the risk of divorce. Again, this is not true for all marriages by any means, and overgeneralization is a pitfall trap which must be avoided when looking at the results of this graph.
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DeleteI think the upward trend could be explained by several factors. One is that as you spend more time married, you become more relaxed with each other and barriers tend to come down. In such a manner, a wife may find out things about her husband that she does not wish to deal with. At first, she may do so, but as time passes and things get worse as he gets more comfortable, she may very well decide to walk out the door. Another factor may be that as two people age together and their problems begin to get more serious (from where the wedding should be, to whether they should save money and have a child or buy a new car), arguments and differences may get more serious. Some people are willing to deal with all the arguing and figure out a compromise, but many are not, and would rather get a divorce.
-CouchPotato
After looking at the chart from the CBC, It becomes clear that it is more likely a marriage between a man and a young woman gets disrupted. So, you could say the older you marry, the more stability you have, right? I think not. To start with the focus groups are weird; There is a group younger than 18, 18-19, 20-24 and then suddenly 25-older. Also, times have changed. It is not 1995 anymore, it is 2014, which makes a huge difference. One of those differences might be forced marriage. There is a chance young woman were forced to marry a man, and divorced later. That information is also not shown in the graph.
ReplyDeleteI agree that a compete understating of the information on this chart is not possible. Age of the husband is an interesting factor, that could shed a lot of additional information on the interpretation. It is obviously important not to overgeneralize, but it is still acceptable to observe the trends of divorce. While it does appear that the younger a woman marries, the more likely she is to get a divorce in the earlier years, women who marry at an older age still experience the same upward trend of divorce as their relationship continutes.
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DeleteI agree with what you have observed about the graph. Some possible explanations for why there is an upward trend of divorce after years of marriage could be: A trauma (ie. a death in the family, illness), economic difficulties (ie. losing a job), and fighting over children. Fighting over children could consist of: wanting/not wanting children, how many children, how to raise children (morals), and financially supporting the child. These are just a few possibilities that could explain the upward trend of divorce as the relationship continues.
This chart represents the duration of the marriage in years and the percent of marriages that have been disrupted by that point in time for four different age groups of the wife when she got married. The data shows that, in general, the younger a woman is when she is married, the steeper the line, which means there are more marriage disruptions at the younger ages. With this data, however, a person cannot say that a couple will get divorced just because they married young because correlation is not causation. Also, this data was collected in 1995 and society has changed so the data may be different now.
ReplyDeleteThe graph shows that women who get married younger seem to have a shorter marriage and a greater likelihood of getting a divorce. Although at first glance, the data does seem to be substantially in favor of this viewpoint, there can be many external influences besides age that can cause the brevity of the relationship. Furthermore, the display of such statistics can also be misleading as the categories of age range from under 18, 18-19, 20-24, 25 and over. There is no consistency regarding the scaling of each category, as category 18-19 only covers two ages and 20-24 only covers five ages. This discrepancy can lead to misinterpretation of data.
ReplyDeleteAfter looking at the graph, it is clear to say that if married at a younger age, there is a higher possibility that that couple will get divorced. It is not saying that it will always happen, but instead that there is a higher probability. Divorces are occurring at all different ages, so just because a person gets married at a older age does not always mean you will stay together forever. There are many obstacles that happen in ones life, and also the outside factors also play a big role in divorce rates.
ReplyDeleteThis graph by the CDC implies that people who marry at young adult ages are more likely to have problems in their relationships. Since this graph represents women's age, it shows how vulnerable a woman is in a relationship at such a young age. More specifically, this graph shows how women married under 18 have the highest rate of "disruption" in their relationships. This might be because of a lack of maturity by these underage women. However, this graph can be very misleading because it shows "disruption" rates not divorce rates. Anyone who reads this graph should look carefully before making any final judgments.
ReplyDeleteI feel like this graph has to do with the culture of the society, American culture states that if your married at a younger age then you have a higher chance of being divorced.
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The graph by the CDC depicts people who get married at a younger age are more likely to experience divorce. I feel that the graph does not represent all the necessary information to come to a conclusion. Only looking a women's results skews our image. Men could have a similar distribution or something completely different. Also, the age of the marriage partner has a huge impact on the possibility of divorce.
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The graph shows the younger you are to get married the more likely the marriage will end in divorce and the marriage will end in divorce much quicker than thoses who get married later in life like around 25.
ReplyDeleteThe graph is showing a trend that women that get married younger are more likely to get divorced. The graph however has age ranges that are disproportionate to each other. One age range includes all ages up to 18, one includes just 18-19, and one includes all women over the age of 25. This, along with the fact that the data does not include the male spouse, may have contributed to the seemingly strong correlation in this graph.
ReplyDeleteThis graph by the CDC demonstrates the correlation between age, the percentage of first marriages disrupted and the duration in years. According to this graph, women that get married at a younger age are more likely to get divorced. This is not to say that because a woman is younger than 18, her relationship won't last longer than someone who is in their 30's. This is because first, correlation does not mean causation. Secondly, the graph is only representing the age of women. An important half of the information is missing: the age of the spouse/man. This can be an important factor in marriages.
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In my opinion, a big reason younger marriages have a higher rate of disruption is because waiting to get married is a societal norm today. Therefore, getting married young could be considered deviance and could have a negative impact on the couple. I don't believe age is the biggest factor in marriage success.
ReplyDeleteThis chart shows that if you get married at 18 or younger there is a higher chance that you will get divorce than if you choose to get married after the age of 18. I think this is a hoax. Divorce happens all the time with a lot of different age groups. However, I do think that as a society people are choosing to get married later because a lot of people do strongly believe that getting married too early is a bad idea.
ReplyDeleteThis chart shows that people who get married younger tend to have a higher chance of getting a divorce compared to getting married at an older age. The pitfall with this chart is to overgeneralize and assume that if you get married at a young age you WILL get divorced. But this is not the case at all. Older people get divorced as well. The chart is just saying that overall, people who marry younger have a higher chance of getting divorced. Again, this depends on every couple. Every couple is different in their own way. Some people who get married at 18 stay together forever, but others do not. It just all depends on the couple.
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The chart is clearly showing that the younger the age at marriage the more likely it is that you will get a divorce. Although, there is definitely still a possibility of a divorce even if you're older at the age of marriage, but it is less likely to happen than the younger you are. No one should see this chart and think that if you get married at the age of 19 or younger that you will definitely end up with a divorce, it is just more likely to happen at a younger age at marriage than an older age at marriage. I think that this chart also shows the importance of cohabitation because then a couple is more likely to figure out their plans for the future and what it is like living with one another, as opposed to rushing into marriage at a young age and possibly ending up with a divorce.
ReplyDeleteThe age of a woman when first married seems to correlate positively with how long an individual’s first marriage will last or so it seems that this is the case that the graph is trying to make. For example, if a bride under the age of 18 years old would get married it is likely that she will have a marriage disruption (divorce.) However, there are some pitfalls that this graph makes that makes it difficult to accept this association. Firstly, the graph does not include women who are over 25. It includes more generally, “25 and over.” If the graph included five-ten year age intervals following the 20-24 age group it would be more credible because it would indicate that there isn’t a particular age group over 25 and over that may indicate that the older a woman is the likelier it is for the marriage to be disrupted. Also, the fact that men are not included in this graph and yet it is used to indicate the probability of first marriage disruption by duration of marriage is difficult to perceive as credible. There could be another graph to show credibility that compares “the probability of first marriage disruption by duration of marriage and husband’s age at first marriage." In addition to a graph including males there may be one or more dedicated to those who are not in a heterosexual marriage as the graph of the wives is not representative of all marriages. Moreover, there is no indication that the wives in the graph were those of only heterosexual marriages or if they were inclusive of homosexual marriages. As to the idea that young people divorce or have disruptions when they get married young, there might be other explanations that may be attributed to it. For example, as young people get married more it might have lead to a larger amount of people who divorce because of the need to attain an education, career conflicts, and/or other lifestyle needs that a marriage at a young age disrupts.
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The chart shows the probability of first marriage disruption by the duration of marriage and the wife's age at marriage. According the the chart, women who marry at a younger age are more probable to have a disruption of their first marriage than older women. This chart can lead people into some pitfalls. First, this data s only collected in 1995. The pattern may not be the same up to recent years. The chart also gives the age of the women, not the men. The difference in age may account for the number of disruptions. Without realizing this, many people may take this data and feel like marriage at 18 years would not work out.
ReplyDelete-Brandon Chambers
After looking and analyzing this chart, I think that anyone could have predicted the outcomes from each age as they appear on the chart. My conclusions that are drawn from it are, the marriages with the ages of under 18 and 18-19 is more likely to have disruptions because of emotions, financial reasons and rash decisions that are made. They also are going to be spending more of their lives together then they aren’t which also will lead to thinking, “what if” or “what else is out there”. For me I learned from this chart and I am thankful you posted it because it solidified to me that I am going to wait as long as I can to get married to avoid disruptions. Thank you.
ReplyDeleteThis chart seems to indicate that the longer a marriage lasts, the more probable it is to be disrupted. Also, the younger the couple was married is indicative of a higher rate of that happening. However, it is important to note that it is a correlation and not causation, because there are other factors that can end a marriage aside from the couple itself.
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This chart shows a positive correlation between age and duration of marriages. This makes sense because the older you are the more experience you have and the more mature so you will be more likely to have a longer marriage that someone who is younger than you. More than half of marriages where the wife is married as a teen is disrupted after 20 years. One reasoning pitfall someone could fall into is by overgeneralizing because at a point in the graph the older that 25 age group does end up having a higher percent of marriage disruption than the 20-24 age group after 15 years.
ReplyDeleteThis chart basically shows the younger you are when you get married the more likely you are to end up divorced. This might be because people who get married younger are more spontaneous and unpredictable. It could also be because couples who marry younger have to go through more together than couples who marry later. A good majority of 18-20 year olds are still in school and not financially stable. Getting married then is usually not a good idea because these factors add more stress to the relationship.
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This chart from the CDC illustrates a very interesting relationship between divorce and the age in which one gets married. The trend that I noticed in this graph is that the younger one gets married, the more likely they are to get divorced. This could possibly be attributed to the fact that younger people are also economically more dependent on others. It is certainly more difficult for them to sustain a marriage if their financial situation is struggling. On the other hand, this graph illustrates that the older one is when getting married, the higher the chance that they will last longer in marriage and not get a divorce. Interestingly enough, this graph only illustrates the age of the women and not of the spouse. I wonder if the researchers included this data, would it change the outcome on this graph?
ReplyDeleteTo answer your question professor, I believe that one of the pitfalls in this chart is if overgeneralizes the data at hand. In certain age groups, the divorce rate does tend to fall. However, it is important to view the bigger picture, where we see the trend going up - the older one is when getting married, the less likely they are to divorce.
- Louis Pardo
It is easy to tell from the picture that the younger the one marriage, the more possibility the relationship will break. The reason maybe that, when people are young they do not know what love is, they have less experience of love and have few ideas about what kind of man or woman is reliable so they divorce. But when they become older, they are more mature and know who is the life long partner.
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When looking at this graph, the first thing I noticed was that it shows people married when they are 18 or younger have higher chances of divorce compared to others who got married later on in life, regardless of how long the relationship has lasted. Meaning, that they people that got married younger have higher changes of divorce the long the marriage has lasted than those with the same length of marriage. This would fit the common perception that the older you are the more mature you are and have a better understanding of the world, which would explain why those who waited to get married had less chances of divorce. I then noticed that this graph is strictly pertaining to the age of the woman when she was married, not her and her husband. This could be a very important factor when looking at divorce rates. I don't think it is suffice to say that this graph is the end all be all. Marriages that end up in divorce could also be attributed to other factors that this graph does not take into account such as living conditions, children, income, etc. The other thing this graph notes is that this information is strictly for 1st marriages. The one other thing I noticed that I thought was odd was the data ends after 18 years for the women who got married at 25 yrs or over. Finally, we must take into account that this graph is from 1995, so the data could be drastically different if looked at today.
ReplyDelete-Cierra Horsting
This chart is demonstrating that people who marry at older ages typically have less disturbed first marriages throughout their durations. If you are not careful enough and just look at the graph, you might think that people of younger ages when married are better off because their line goes higher into the longer durations when in fact, that means that more and more people are having disrupted marriages. Detailing from the graph you could say that the younger you are when married, the greater chance you have of divorcing. However, that is not to say that couples that marry first at older ages do not also divorce as many of them still do if you read the graph correctly.
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In this chart, we can see there is a decrease in the percentage of marriage being interrupted as people get married at an older age. And as we learnt in class and my interruption of the data, the reason could be the following:
ReplyDelete1 people getting married at an older age are better educated on average
2 people getting married at an older age may spend more time dating each other; therefore know each other better before they decide to get married.
3 people getting married at an older age are more mature at the age they get married, so they may have thought about the possible problems and solution better.
But the part I don’t get is why will there be more people divorced as the duration of marriage increase. The only reason I guess is because many couples choose to divorce when their children are older.
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Based from the graph, there is a correlation between higher divorce rates and young couples (18years and younger). In my opinion, this graph makes sense because if couples marry at a young age, it would be very difficult to establish a solid marriage for their future for many reasons. One reason would be that the couple didn't spend enough time to grow and nurture their emotions for each other. Another reason would be that they are financially supported well enough especially since if the married couple wants to have a child or buy a house, both require a substantial amount of money which is hard for 18 -22 year olds since they are most likely in college trying to earn a high paying job. Typically it makes sense for couples to get married after 25 years of age since those individuals should be done studying college, thus earning a degree and find a job that can financially support the family. So the younger you get married, the higher the divorce rate, as opposed to the older you are the less chance of the couple getting a divorce.
ReplyDeleteThe chart tracks the duration of marriages, based on when women were married, and the percent chance that the marriage was disrupted as the marriage grew older. The consensus, based on the chart, is that when women marry younger, the chance that the marriage is disrupted increases more as time goes on than when women marry at a later age. However, it is incorrect to infer that because women marry younger, the marriage will end in divorce. Additionally, it is incorrect to stipulate based on the chart that if a woman marries at a later age, the marriage will not end in divorce. Also, the chart is plotting marriage at the age of the woman not man, which is important to consider when summarizing the graph, as it would be incorrect to include men.
ReplyDeleteThis is a chart looking at the woman's age at the time of marriage versus divorce rate. Obviously this chart is showing that the younger a woman is when she gets married, the more likely it is for her to get divorced. There are a lot of reasons for this. First, the younger a woman is, especially before the age of 18, most woman are not fully sure of what they want to do with their lives. They may find as they get older that being married limits her from achieving her goals so she may get divorced. On the other hand women 25 and older generally have a better grasp on life in the real world so they will be more settled and ready to get married. Also, young woman may get married because there might be a child involved. Getting married here sometimes isn't because of love for the other, but for the good of the child. As she and her husband get older, they might realize they don't love each other and the might get divorced. There are plenty of other explanations for this trend, but there are also some pitfalls and illogical conclusion you can make from this graph. For example, look at the under 18 line, it seems to be going up and up. Extrapolating this line would give you the impression that almost all women the get married before 18 get divorced, and that isn't true. Also, all of the lines slope upward. Someone might infer that regardless of age, as you stay married for longer, the more likely it is that you will get divorced, and that isn't true either. It just increases because the pool increases.
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ReplyDeleteThe graph suggested that couples who get married at younger ages are more likely to divorce than couples who get married later in age. The reasoning pitfall of this graph is that the information does not include a statistic data for men. Without looking at the ages of men when getting married, we can not make an over generalization that suggest all women who get married under age 18 is going to end up in divorce.
From looking at this chart, the first conclusion most people will come to is that the younger you are when you get married, the more likely you are to get divorced. It agrees with what we learned in class when we were talking about factors that influence marriage. The older you are when you get married, the more likely you are to have a lasting marriage. However, every marriage is different, and age/maturity is not always a reason for a divorce. I think the correlation a valid one, however there are so many different reasons people get divorced to say that age is the biggest reason people with younger marriages have more divorces. Anything can happen at any age, and just because you are older doesn't mean you are always more ready for a marriage than someone young.
ReplyDeleteThis chart does show that the younger you are when you get married, the more likely you are to get a divorce. This could be because young couples rush into relationships without getting to know their significant other really well before getting married. When looking at this graph, one might misjudge that the longer you've been in a marriage, the more likely you are to get divorced. This is not the case, it's just that more marriages get disrupted over time, which is why the total percentage goes up over the graph.
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The research discusses correlation between women’s age, marital durations and their divorce possibility. It’s debatable whether age plays a significant role in divorce, because there are many factors that can lead to this situation that not necessarily related to age. One typical example for this lies in an explanation for the hypothesis that marriages of black, non-Hispanic women are less stable than those of white non-Hispanic or Hispanic women. The researchers argue that this can be due to lack of solid job opportunities, poverty or educational status. This also applies to marriage on the whole.
ReplyDeleteAccording to this great, wives under 18 have a higher percent chance of getting a divorce than wives that over 25. The longer one is married, that higher the percentage of getting a divorce. The pitfall seems to be that this graph is only about wives and not husbands. Is it saying that wives are the ones divorcing the husbands?
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This chart takes into account the age of a woman at marriage and the failing of marriages/ length of marriages. This is an interesting way to look at divorce and marriages because it only focuses on the woman's age. I don't believe I have ever seen a chart before that only looks at the woman and not both the man and the woman. It is interesting to see that age appears to be an indicator of marriages not lasting, however as we have discussed in class and in the slides, there are so many factors that go into divorce and divorce rates. It is impossible to pin point just one factor as the reason behind trends in marriages.
ReplyDeleteThe chart indicates that the younger women are, the more likely a marriage is likely to end. What's interesting about this is that while I'm sure majority of the marriages include spouses of similar age, I wonder if the chart also accounts for women who have a larger age gap between their spouse. I do believe that people who get married much younger have the risk of divorce because I think people change dramatically as they mature as an adult with a full career. I think the older people get, the more they have it figured out as to what they wants from life which is why marriages are not as rushed and have a tendency to last longer even though they too have a risk of divorce.
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From the chart it is clearly seen that the younger women is at marriage, the higher chance she will get divorced. this might be because girls at young age still do not have enough experience to distinguish between bad and good, still believe to words instead of analyzing the situation and plan ahead. they rush into marriage. Also, we can see in the chart that as time passes after marriage, the rate of divorces decrease, which means that most marriages are disrupted in the first years of marriage. we should not make generalizations from this graph because it provides information only from 1995, and does not include the spouse.
ReplyDeleteAccording to the graph, the younger a woman is when she is married, the less likely that marriage will last. One reason this may be occurring is because when a woman marries young, she is not fully experienced or relatively ready to enter into a lifelong commitment. However, the cause of divorce was not explained. Perhaps they divorced because of financial reasons. Younger men and women are not completely established and/or capable to settle down if they do not have the resources to do so.
ReplyDeleteThe graph to me shows the naivety and impulsive nature of America's youth when deciding upon marriage. This is because at a young age, the adult mind and body hasn't fully developed and relationships are not rooted in significant foundations. Also, financially, at a younger age it is harder to provide for a family. The median salary increases for the average American as they become older. It makes sense to wait till later for marriage, because at a later age an individual is more sophisticated and cultured and knows exactly what they are looking for in a relationship.
ReplyDeleteThe chart provided by the CDC shows the correlation between age and marriage longevity. Generally, the information provided suggests that couples that marry at younger ages are more likely to have their marriages disrupted as opposed to those couples that get married at later times in life. This chart should not be misconstrued however, by saying that all young couples are doomed for disruption and/or divorce or even all older people have successful relationships together. This is a majority study and not by any means suggesting the fate of relationships. I’d also like to know what this chart means by “disrupted” as that term could apply to many conditions including separation, divorce, or just bad tensions between partners.
ReplyDelete-Cameron J. Goins/ 12/10/14
This chart illustrates how the amount of young people that are getting married is increasing while marriages between older people is declining. Perhaps this trend is due to the increasing rate of habituation of older people. This habituation could account for many people being together but not officially married, thus, skewing the results. I think that it is very interesting that the rate of marriages for 18 year old couples is increasing so much. I am curious to the reasons why this is happening.
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When people are younger, most of the time they do not know what they want out of life and have not fully developed into the person they are going to be. There is still a lot of change going on between both partners if they are young. This causes marriage disruptions because of the constant changing between the two people. I think that plays a big part in why there are more disruptions in the marriages of younger people eventually. However, I am curious as to why there is a sharp spike in the 25 and older category in disruptions after about 14 years?
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The chart indicates the correlation between the wife's age at marriage and the percentage of marriages disrupted. It demonstrates that as the wife's age increases, the chances of a disruption decreases. However, it fails to address two key components that may impact the data. First, it never mentions anything about the age of the husband: leading me to believe either their age has no impact or that their age has an impact that is not being recorded. Second, it fails to mention whether the "older" women (only older than the youngest group by at least 7 years) have been cohabiting with their future fiance. If they have been cohabiting, like we mentioned in lectures: the chances of a break up after marriage decreases and if they break up before marriage, it is not reflected in the data.
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I believe that the younger you are when you choose to get married the more likely you are to divorce simply based on the fact that you may not know your partner as well as you think. When you chose to get married at a later age you have both had time to mature and figure out if that is the person you will choose to stay with, thus lessening the divorce rate
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This graph shows correlations between age at marriage and the chances of having a disrupted marriage. First, I’m wondering whether disruption is referring to divorce…If we assume that it is divorce, then it would be easy for the viewer to be mislead into thinking that people who were older when they got married have a much smaller chance of having a disrupted marriage. This graph doesn’t specify whether it was the person’s first marriage, though, so it could be that a person’s second marriage (obviously when they are older) is more likely to last, since they have been married before. Since this graph only has limited data, it’s not safe to make assumptions based on what seems to be the trend. Also, at the end of the graph, the 25 and over line overtakes the 21-24 line, which doesn’t fit with the suggested trend. This reveals that since there are so many complications to a marriage or divorce, graphs cannot be trusted to tell the whole story.
ReplyDeleteIt seems from the chart that as the duration of marriage increases, the chances of disruption increase dramatically. It would also seem that the wife age when first married is negatively correlated with the chances of marriage disruption. When a person is younger, they might not know what they want and likely have not fully matured, causing the marriage to be disrupted and break apart when the couples realizes that they were not as compatible as they once thought. Likewise the older a couple is when first married, the more likely they have solidified what they want out of marriage and a marriage partner, and therefore are more likely to pick a suitable partner for marriage.
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This chart shows a positive correlation between age and duration of marriages. This makes sense because the older you are the more experience you have and the more mature so you will be more likely to have a longer marriage that someone who is younger than you. More than half of marriages where the wife is married as a teen is disrupted after 20 years. One reasoning pitfall someone could fall into is by overgeneralizing because at a point in the graph the older that 25 age group does end up having a higher percent of marriage disruption than the 20-24 age group after 15 years.
ReplyDeleteThis chart exposes the correlation between age and marriage duration. I agree with the overall consensus of this chart, as those who are older and in turn have more experience are likely to have a longer and sustainable marriage. Marriages which occur at younger ages overwhelmingly fail, with those individuals marrying under 18 being disrupted over 50% of the time after 10 years. These findings show that marriage reflects overall maturity, and should be something considered after the fundamental early 20's period when many individuals are still finding themselves.
ReplyDeleteThis chart represents the divorce rate and age. There is a correlation here. The younger people tend to get married the more likely they are to experience divorce. This statistic makes sense and is significant in showing that individuals should certainly consider waiting a few years instead of getting married at age 18 if they want to ensure that their marriage will be successful.
ReplyDeleteWhen I joined the military I was taken aback by the volume of young married couples. One of my friends in the military got married while in the military at age 20. Unfortunately, he got divorced 5 months later. The statistics rightly express that with comes wisdom. I don't mean to say that anyone 20 years of age or younger shouldn't get married. I would simply advise them not too. One goes through a world of change from their early twenties to their mid twenties and so on.
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This chart is saying that the older in age a person is when they marry, the less likely their marriage will be disrupted as the length of their marriage continues. It also says that the younger in age a person is when they marry, the more likely their relationship is to be disrupted and it is more likely that the relationship won't last as long. This chart doesn't apply to all couples, though. Disruption doesn't also necessarily mean divorce in all of these cases either.
ReplyDeleteThis chart shows the positive correlation between length of marriage and the age of the participants when they were married. One should be careful when reading this though because this doesn't necessarily suggest a causal relationship. The study doesn't take into account the number of marriages both parties have been in previously and a number of other potentially confounding variables.
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The chart shows that the older a person is when they get married, the less liely they are going to divorce. The younger a couple when they get married, they are more likely to get divorced. Older people tend to have more experience and how lived long enough to have a proper education, good career/job, and is able to take care of themselves well enough to take care of another person too. Some young people who get married aren't quite experienced and haven't discovered the whole world yet. They feel that there is too much responsibility to a marriage and sometimes they can't handle it.
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