Derek Thompson notes that, with divorce, “richer you are, the less likely you are to do it”:
Divorce rates by age 46 are twice as high among high-school dropouts than college grads. The point isn’t that a 30-percent divorce rate among bachelor’s degree holders is low. Divorce is common. But it’s much, much more common for drop-outs and graduates of high school, only. This same point is made more starkly (albeit less colorfully) in new study of divorce trends from Demographic Research. Watch the rising black bars and falling white bars [in this chart]. The story you’re following is that divorce rates among dropouts are going up, up, up, while divorce for bachelor’s holders have fallen to half-century lows.
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