Divorce Hurts Society

For John, BLUF:  Divorce and remarriage actually decreases diversity in marriage, overall.  Nothing to see here; just move along.

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Does easy divorce lead to more assortative mating?

Assortive:  denoting or involving the preferential mating of animals or the marriage of humans with similar characteristics

A Marginal Revolution Blog Post by Mercator Center Economics Professor Tyler Cowen, on 25 November 2017.

Professor Cowan has an abstract of a paper on unilateral (easy or no fault) divorce and its (adverse) impact on society.

Remember the 1921 song by Ray Egan and Gus Kahn and Richard Whiting, Ain't we Got Fun?

There's nothing sure
The rich get rich and the poor get poorer
In the meantime, in between time
Ain't we got fun?

Hat tip to the InstaPundit.

Regards  —  Cliff