Also, when it comes to having more control over the raising of the child, you need to take into account that there’s a decently high probability you’ll get divorced from your current partner, at which point you’ll only have semi-control and have to share that with somebody who might be quite hostile to you.
There’s a standard saying that ‘half of all marriages end in divorce’. That’s an outdated overestimate, and the divorce rate is much, much higher for people who don’t graduate college, and who are pregnant/have a kid before getting married.
This number is probably even higher if they wait til after college graduation to get married, if they aren’t pregnant/have a kid before marriage, if they don’t cohabit for a long time before marriage, and if they’re 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 there’s a decently high probability you’ll get divorced from your current partner, at which point you’ll only have semi-control and have to share that with somebody who might be quite hostile to you.
There’s a standard saying that ‘half of all marriages end in divorce’. That’s an outdated overestimate, and the divorce rate is much, much higher for people who don’t graduate college, and who are pregnant/have a kid before getting married.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 aren’t pregnant/have a kid before marriage, if they don’t cohabit for a long time before marriage, and if they’re reasonably high in agreeableness, and low in neuroticism