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Study: College-Educated Women More Likely to Stay Married
Women who want to stay married might want to hit the books and get a college education. At least that is the theory behind a study reviewing marriage data from 1950 to 2008.
A woman with a college education may be less likely to tie the knot than her less-educated counterparts, but once she's married this college grad is more likely to stay that way, according to two economists.
The finding, based on a review of research from 1950 to 2008, also reveals changes over time in who is getting married and having kids and why. Historically, women with more education have been the least likely to marry and have children, but this marriage gap has eroded as marriage and remarriage rates for women with a college degree relative to those with less education have risen.
In fact, college-educated women now marry later, have fewer children, are less likely to view marriage as "financial security," are happier in their marriages and are the least likely to divorce.
Source: Fox News
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I'm a college educated woman who went on the homemaker track. I had role modeling by my parents to stay married no matter what. But I find now that if I had to rely on my parents' role modeling I wouldn't have stayed married as my marriage is difficult for me to take now that I'm more educated. Surprisingly I must say that my education has shown me that our lives are not a single track and that there are many ways to look at things. If I look at life only through the lens of how miserable I feel right now and how I want to break free, then I am inclined to take the first door out of here. If I look at life through the lens of stability for my family, I realize I'm not that important compared to all of us together, so I can make my own feelings secondary. And if I look at my life through the lens of "what does unhappiness mean?" I can see a wide variety of explanations and alternative choices. Ultimately, I can stay here and find another way to feel joy in life. Education let me begin to see happiness in life as coming from something other than physical circumstances. And I'm grateful for that.
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