15 signs you'll get divorced

jennlin · July 2010

http://www.comcast.net/articles/news-general/20100707/070710.signs.divorce.dailybeast/

niq24601 · July 2010

lol at the testosterone thing.

was surprised there wasn't something like "if you have a child with a severe disability or illness" on the list. Maybe there isn't enough of a sample size. But I always figured that having a child who was very sick or required tons of care was so stressful that the parents would be more likely to decide they couldn't deal with both caring for the kid and making their marriage work.

I think having a severely disabled kid is the thing that scares me the most about the long term future.

mgoss228 · July 2010

niq:
Good point on the severely disabled divorce rate. For years, it has been thought that 75-80% of parents with autism get divorced, but now that has been debunked:

http://www.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/05/19/autism.divorce.rates/index.html

The article makes some good points. Having a child with autism is my biggest worry for the future (as far the relationship with FI is concerned). My younger brother is on the lower functioning end of the autism spectrum, and I'm pretty sure it was the leading cause of my parents separating.

jennyann28 · July 2010

Number 6 is interesting! I actually went to Ohio State & took a class (Human Sexuality) in which we had to do debates as groups. Our group got assigned the topic of co-habitation! Weird!

Niq, you are right though. Parents of severely disabled children DO have a higher rate of divorce.

jennuinne · July 2010

But the cohabitation doesn't talk about living w/ FI b/f marriage.

niq24601 · July 2010

It does, but it's kind of hidden. The results are not what you think:

The same study by Ohio State University sociologists that produced this result also found that even those who cohabit only with their future spouses "are still 83 percent more likely to experience a marital disruption relative to those that did not cohabit prior to marriage."

This has been true for a while, and the theory is that the people who live together before marriage are different in ways that make divorce more likely. It used to make a much bigger difference than it does today, because more and more people do it and so the people living together before marriage are a more "normal" group of people.

Here's the paper if you want to read it:

http://paa2007.princeton.edu/download.aspx?submissionId=71718

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