Quote: wannabuyamonkey said: False, the statistics that you're refering to are deceptive in thier presentation. The statistic that 50% of marraiges end in divorce takes into account second and third marraiges so people who keep remarrying over and over are factored into the numbers multiple times. The number of first marraiges that end in divorce is less than one third (wich is too high, but a far cry from over half.) Allow me to demonstrate how this works.
you have six people 1 2 3 4 5 6 all of whome get married. Person 1 and peson 2 both get divorces. they remarry, but because they were never good at commitment in the first place both of these marraiges end too. so they get married a third time again these marraiges also end in divorce, so now while we have 6 representives we have 10 marraiges half of wich ended in divorce however 3 4 5 and 6 all stayed married too the same person leaving us with a two thirds success rate umong our sample. That's where this false 50% number comes into play. And as far as using this as a factor of who holds marraige sacred even the less than one third marraiges that end in divorce doesn't take into account that in many of these cases there may an innocent party who still holds marraige as sacred.
Aren't we a bit off topic? Marriage was originally a means of forming strategic alliances between kinship groups. The concept of legitamacy of birth, you bastard, stems from the heritability of property.
