Marriage Rates at all time low in England

Submitted by oregon dad on Wed, 2008-03-26 15:21

Article here. Looks like the boys are getting the message in Britain. The McCartney settlement sure didn't much help those girls that would like to marry.

Marriage is not a good proposition in England or the USA right now - and is likely not to be for some time to come.

Like0 Dislike0

Comments

"Only a fraction more than two per cent of women and 2.28 per cent of men over the age of 16 chose to get married in 2006."

That is a very suspect statistic.

Because you can't tell who is included or excluded from the sample.

It does not state "single" women or "single" men and so I smell a bad study.

There is little doubt that more than 3% of females and males aged 18 - 28 are marrying.

This is bad social science.

Like0 Dislike0
Submitted by Roy on Wed, 2008-03-26 22:58

I read somewhere they're considered the most violent in the world.

..........................................................

"The sunshine bores the daylights out of me.
Chasing shadows moonlight mystery."

[Rolling Stones]

Like0 Dislike0
Submitted by anthony on Wed, 2008-03-26 23:15

This is stating the obvious, but marriage is a raw deal for men. It's a good thing a lot of them are starting to wake up and smell the coffee.

Evan AKA X-TRNL
Real Men Don't Take Abuse!

Like0 Dislike0
Submitted by xtrnl on Thu, 2008-03-27 02:29

In England, a woman can "earn" more by not marrying, than she would in many if not most cases, from having a working spouse.

Over there they grant single mothers "tax credits", which amount to income and are much more lucrative than our welfare (or whatever) entitlements for single mothers. According to Steve Moxon in The Woman Racket, the government is paying women to have children without being married.

Of course divorced dads over there get screwed just like in the U.S. But that's not the main impetus for the ever-increasing single motherhood in England.

-ax

Like0 Dislike0
Submitted by axolotl on Thu, 2008-03-27 05:34

If that is indeed the case, that women there are financially incented to have kids but not marry, and men are reluctant to marry due to divorce, then it's like the same polar ends of two magnets brough close to each other... you'd have to use force to get them to touch. No surprise then that marriage rates are wayyy down in the UK and single motherhood wayyy up.

Heck if they keep this up there may well be room to regrow Sherwood Forest in a few years!

Like0 Dislike0
Submitted by mcc99 on Thu, 2008-03-27 17:48

it sounds like we have a new sherwood forest growing between men and women in england now.

had to happen. you can't manipulate marriage (legally or spiritually) for the benefit of one side and expect it to endure. and no one seems honestly interested in fixing it. just more same old, same old.

say it ain't so, sir paul.

Like0 Dislike0
Submitted by daveinga on Thu, 2008-03-27 23:34