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Divorce rate may be too low.
It's that the marriage rate has been too high for a long time.
That, and people become economicly dependent. They tried UBI when Nixon was president (I know right) and it was considered a failure because the divorce rate went up. What later studies showed was that the divorce rate went up because women in abusive or dead end relationships were finally empowered to leave the spouses they had become depend on.
Successful experiment for them. Prove economic suppression was working to keep women abused carrying babies. Checked clipboard, doubled down.
And if women voted as often as they should this wouldn't be considered a political failure
it might be about to rise
Might be a good idea to divorce now before the conservative supreme court screws up that option too.
Not if Republicans get their way.
It's that large parts of the country are an absolute dystopia, all the jobs are either physically demanding, or service-related.
why is that related to divorce rates?
Women can't get the high paying jobs traditionally performed by men, making them financially dependent.
Don't forget the abortion angle, combined with the healthcare and housing angles. Add in the poor public education angle and you've got a vicious cycle creating dependence on men and new generations of people with fewer resources to avoid getting caught in that cycle themselves.
Also just the assumption of gender roles where women are expected to still be stay at home moms while mem are expected to provide, which is far more entrenched in the south, it's actually a religious commandment to them.