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From: greg@ncr-tp.UUCP (Greg Noel)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: Re: marriage
Message-ID: <135@ncr-tp.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 22-Feb-85 01:26:01 EST
Article-I.D.: ncr-tp.135
Posted: Fri Feb 22 01:26:01 1985
Date-Received: Tue, 26-Feb-85 20:24:25 EST
References: <536@decwrl.UUCP> <336@zinfandel.UUCP>
Reply-To: greg@ncr-tp.UUCP (Greg Noel)
Organization: NCR Corporation, Torrey Pines
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In article <336@zinfandel.UUCP> berry@zinfandel.UUCP (Berry Kercheval) writes:
>  In days gone by ... the most common
>cause of the ending of a marriage was death of one of the partners.  Today,
>the most common cause is divorce, BECAUSE people live longer!

I would be pleased if you would locate and cite the exact information.  I have
heard the same thing: that when the institution of marriage was formalized,
the length of the average marriage was under eight years due to the short life
spans during that era, but I don't remember where I learned that, and I have
no idea how accurate it is.  I would dearly love to know what the real data is.
(It might make me feel a little better about my own divorce.....)  Tks.
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-- Greg Noel, NCR Torrey Pines       Greg@ncr-tp.UUCP or Greg@nosc.ARPA