Also, when it comes to having more control over the raising of the child, you need to take into account that thereās a decently high probability youāll get divorced from your current partner, at which point youāll only have semi-control and have to share that with somebody who might be quite hostile to you.
Thereās a standard saying that āhalf of all marriages end in divorceā. Thatās an outdated overestimate, and the divorce rate is much, much higher for people who donāt graduate college, and who are pregnant/āhave a kid before getting married.
This number is probably even higher if they wait til after college graduation to get married, if they arenāt pregnant/āhave a kid before marriage, if they donāt cohabit for a long time before marriage, and if theyāre reasonably high in agreeableness, and low in neuroticism
Also, when it comes to having more control over the raising of the child, you need to take into account that thereās a decently high probability youāll get divorced from your current partner, at which point youāll only have semi-control and have to share that with somebody who might be quite hostile to you.
Thereās a standard saying that āhalf of all marriages end in divorceā. Thatās an outdated overestimate, and the divorce rate is much, much higher for people who donāt graduate college, and who are pregnant/āhave a kid before getting married.
Among women with a college education, at least 78% of marriage last at least 20 years.
This number is probably even higher if they wait til after college graduation to get married, if they arenāt pregnant/āhave a kid before marriage, if they donāt cohabit for a long time before marriage, and if theyāre reasonably high in agreeableness, and low in neuroticism