bensozia: The Baby Boom was Weird

Thursday, October 9, 2025

Two charts from Jeremy Horpedahl, based on census data. People tend to forget that spinsters and bachelors were big things in the 19th century.

G. Verloren said...: The most iconic longstanding stereotype of the Baby Boomers (actively promoted both by others and by themselves) is that of unhappy marriages, spouses who resent each other, rampant and acrimonious divorce, and then repeating the whole malignant process multiple times.

I therefor take the data as a sign that the younger generations are less maladjusted and better at avoiding the mistake of trapping themselves and others in toxic relationships.

Tennyson may have been right about love, but marriage is a different beast entirely. I would argue, 'Tis worse to have married and divorced than never to have married at all...; October 10, 2025 at 1:48 AM

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