>>3823032Oh, sorry.
To clarify, I *did* do a few google searches trying to find a source for your charts. All that came back were the charts themselves.
If all it takes is typing a few keywords into google, you should be able to shame me with a lmgtfy link so I can read whatever study it came from, and see for myself whether or not they properly controlled for things like their community's relative stigma about divorce, whether or not they had their own independent funds so they'd be able to survive on their own without their husband if they left, etc.
Fact is, as time goes on and women get more equality, more women feel comfortable leaving bad marriages. That's also corresponded with an increase in promiscuity, but as any intro-to-statistics course will tell you correlation DOES NOT imply causation.
Say you're a housewife in the 1950s. Your husband drinks heavily and he beats you every day, and he's been increasingly leering at your daughter and talking about what a sexy young woman she's growing into. But you have no job, no money of your own, you'd get shunned by your church, and your family would side with your husband. What do you do? You stay with him. What do you do in 2021? You take your kid and leave his ass.
Additionally, your charts say nothing about the men. Have the men also been more promiscuous? Is the correlation more or less strong than with the women? Why are you blaming things entirely on the women? And hell, the charts don't even say it's the women that are leaving--it might be that men are asking for divorces more.
Anyway, I guess my point is that throwing up unsourced data and then deflecting when someone asks for a citation isn't really as sophisticated a conversation technique as you think it might be.
