Holding out for Mr or Mrs Right?
Well you might
as well not bother, soz. A new study suggests the longer you wait to walk down
the aisle, the MORE likely you are to end up divorced – who’d of thought, eh?
Nicholas Wolfinger – a sociologist at
the University of Utah – reckons the chances of your marriage ending in divorce
increase with every year after the age of 33.
So what’s the
perfect time, Mr Wolf(inger)?
Using data from
the National Survey of Family Growth, the sociologist pinpoints an age window
between mid to late twenties in which saying ‘I do’ is said to lead to a
happily ever after rather than a decree nisi and shares in Ben and Jerry’s.
Wolfinger said:
‘My data analysis shows that prior to age 32 or so, each additional year of age
at marriage reduces the odds of divorce by 11 per cent.
‘After that the
odds of divorce increase by 5 per cent a year.’
Although, his
research doesn’t take into consideration that divorce has become a lot more
socially acceptable in the last four (or so) decades.
Philip Cohen – a
sociologist from the University of Maryland disputed Wolfinger’s findings.
Using separate
data from the American Community Surveys, Cohen found that tying the knot in
later life would still reduce the chance of divorce.
So rest easy,
you don’t need to arrange a shotgun ceremony any time soon.
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