Is it Rare for Someone's Biogical Parents to Stay Together?

[gribbler]

B ****ing S.

It's rare to find anyone whose biological parents are married! All of you are out of touch with America.

Why do you think Santorum is going on and on about families? It's because that type of family is dead in America.

Well?

[gribbler]

How the **** did I misspell biological? Is there a way to fix that?

[Dr Strangelove]

It could be fixed ................................................ but it won't be. We want your gaffe to live on.

My parents stayed together, and I'm still married to the mother of my children.

[Dauphin]

My parents are, so were my grandparents ('til death did they part).

It may be generational though. Recently the Daily Mail had a crisis of what to report when they ran an article that marriages were on the way up after decades of decline - a possible reason was increased immigration, not a return to family values of the indigenous population.

[Dauphin]

Resurgence of marriage: After an official report showed married couples are happiest, weddings are on the increase

In 2009, number of weddings was lowest since Victorian age
But boom in 2010 saw 8,657 more walking down the aisle
Before that the popularity of marriage had been on the wane since 1972
Two out of three civil ceremonies are now held in stately homes

[...]

The rise might also be attributable to immigration. Around 600,000 migrants come to live in Britain each year and have a high regard for marriage.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...#ixzz1o4i2wIKU

[The Mad Monk]

How the **** did I misspell biological? Is there a way to fix that?

If you catch it within the time limit and hit "go advanced", you can edit the thread title.

If you hit "go advanced" after that, changing the title will not effect how it looks on the main board.

[-Jrabbit]

Historical: My parents were together 42 years; they divorced long after their kids were grown and gone.

Contemporary: My wife and I remain together; our daughter is 24.

[Jon Miller]

My parents separated when I was 16. Divorced when I was 17.

JM

[N35t0r]

My parents divorced four years ago, by that time three of us four siblings had finished high school.

[Ming]

My parents are still together... both my brothers are still married to the mothers of their children, and I'm still married to the mother of my children.

[Dinner]

So it's official. Alpert once again is unable to understand that everyone else's life is not exactly like his.

[Dauphin]

My parents are still together... both my brothers are still married to the mothers of their children, and I'm still married to the mother of my children.

For some reason I read that as "I'm still married to all the mothers of my children". It's late and I'm tired.

[gribbler]

If Al is so sure that relationships are doomed to fail why is he so intent on finding a FEMALE?

[loinburger]

My parents are still together; four out of seven of their married siblings are still married to their original partners (the three who divorced are all remarried; none of them divorced more than once)

[Al B. Sure!]

Not a scientific study. Apolyton posters are a privileged demographic. That's well established and I've been saying it since I was 14.

Go make a poll about how many people here have college degrees.


As for the question, my mother is a 2-time divorcee.

[gribbler]

People with college degrees aren't exactly rare. Maybe you should admit you were wrong for once.

[Al B. Sure!]

People with college degrees aren't exactly rare. Maybe you should admit you were wrong for once.

We could do a poll about Masters or Doctorate degrees... you're dancing around my point that Apolyton represents a privileged demographic.

[gribbler]

What do you want, statistics? You reject statistics that don't confirm what you already believe...

[Al B. Sure!]

Over 50% of first marriages end in divorce.

[Uncle Sparky]

My dad died when I was a teenager & my mom died a couple of years ago.

[gribbler]

Over 50% of first marriages end in divorce.

To my knowledge, no.

http://www.census.gov/prod/2011pubs/p70-125.pdf

Scroll down to figures 3a and 3b. Then scroll down to 4a and 4b. Then look at 5.

[Imran Siddiqui]

You think Alby reads facts?

[Lorizael]

My parents are closing in on 40 years together. But yeah, I'm pretty privileged. My dad is a college dropout, my mom works a dead end job, and it was way cool wondering if the utilities would be on when I got home from school.

[Al B. Sure!]

You think Alby reads facts?

I read **** like this:

"Married adults now divorce two-and-a-half times as often as adults did 20 years ago and four times as often as they did 50 years ago... between 40% and 60% of new marriages will eventually end in divorce. The probability within... the first five years is 20%, and the probability of its ending within the first 10 years is 33%... Perhaps 25% of children ages 16 and under live with a stepparent." -Brian K. Williams, Stacy C. Sawyer, Carl M. Wahlstrom, Marriages, Families & Intimate Relationships, 2005

[Ming]

Perhaps 25% of children ages 16 and under live with a stepparent." -Brian K. Williams, Stacy C. Sawyer, Carl M. Wahlstrom, Marriages, Families & Intimate Relationships, 2005

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA Only 25%. So thanks for proving yourself wrong. So the majority of children are NOT living with a stepparent.

[Al B. Sure!]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA Only 25%. So thanks for proving yourself wrong. So the majority of children are NOT living with a stepparent.

Now add the 34% who live in single-parent homes!

http://datacenter.kidscount.org/data...s.aspx?ind=107

Which was my entire point from the other thread that non-traditional families outnumber traditional.

Straight from gribbler quoting me in the OP of this thread:

It's rare to find anyone whose biological parents are married!

Yup, that includes single-parent homes, does it not?

[Al B. Sure!]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA Ming. Wrong.

[Ming]

Only 25% are living with a step parent... so the majority of children are NOT living with a step parent... nothing wrong with what I posted.

You said RARE... and you have YET to PROVE it.

Have fun.

[Wezil]

Historical: My parents were together 42 years; they divorced long after their kids were grown and gone.

Ditto.

We all wondered why it took so long.

[Al B. Sure!]

Only 25% are living with a step parent... so the majority of children are NOT living with a step parent... nothing wrong with what I posted.

You made a strawman and crushed it with gusto. Good job, Ming. You go, boy.