Millennials are known to break all the rules and live their lives based on their own terms.
This means that they do things differently and have different values than previous generations.
One of the things that millennials are doing differently is marriage.
A survey by the Pew Research Center found that married Millennials are less likely to divorce.
A study by University of Maryland sociology profession Philip Cohen found that divorce rates in the U.S. dropped 18 percent from 2008 to 2016.
Millennials and Generation X just seems to be better at making a marriage work.
While divorce rates have also declined, Cohen says that his findings factor in for the decline in marriages.
He says his data shows that marriages just have a greater chance of lasting than they did 10 years ago, according to Bloomberg.
The Bowling Green’s National Center for Family and Marriage Research shows that Baby Boomers continue to have unusually high divorce rates even in their 60s and 70s.
Divorce rates were found to have doubled for people aged 55 to 64 and tripled for Americas 65 and older.
While divorces that occur older in age might be a trend that’s leveled out, Cohen says Baby Boomers are still divorcing at rates that are higher than previous generations did at similar ages.
The study suggests that Millennials are better at marriage because of their values and beliefs.
Research shows that Millenials are pickier about who they marry.
They also get married at older ages when they complete their education, have careers, and feel like they are financially stable.
“The change among young people is particularly striking,” Susan Brown, a sociology professor at Bowling Green State University, said of Cohen’s results told Bloomberg.
“The characteristics of young married couples today signal a sustained decline [in divorce rates] in the coming years.”
The study also found that some less educated poor Americas are not getting married at all.
They are more liked to raise children together but hold off on marriage.
These cohabitating relationships are found to be less stable than they used to be.
“One of the reasons for the decline is that the married population is getting older and more highly educated,” Cohen said. “Marriage is more and more an achievement of status, rather than something that people do regardless of how they’re doing.”
Sociologist Nicholas Wolfinger says that couples who get married between the ages of 25 and 34 have the best chances of staying together.
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