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from:msnbc.comFamilies with twins or triplets are more likely to separate due to the financial burdens involved, according to a survey on Wednesday.
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I've yet to meet a divorced couple whose financial outlook improved. In fact all the people I personally know who divorced all experienced greater financial ruin than before.
So I guess I'm confused as to why a couple would divorce over that? I could see if one was a serious spender and wouldn't change?
Frankly I'm amazed and happy to see the rates aren't that much different, I would have thought the rates would be twice as high compared to those with just 1 baby at a time. As a father of twins (3 kids total) I can personally account for the extra challenges. I must admit at times I didn't believe our marriage would survive but it did, our boy/girl twins are now out of the nest, one in the Navy, the other in college. While I was the sole bread winner in our family, and my income would be categorized as lower to middle, middle income ($50Kish), our issues were rarely about money. Just my 2 cents worth.
momtomany...I wondered the exact same thing. My first thought: "It's not like divorce is any cheaper." Then you've got two households to worry about instead of being able to pull financial resources.
Seriously - WHO comes up with this stuff? Our twins only brought us closer together. One looks like me, and one like my husband. We know that we are truly blessed. Yes, there is more financial burden. Our twins will not have as much as our older two children, but they do not need all of the excess "waste". Maybe we are not the norm...
I'm sorry...if they had said 50% vs 25% or even 40% vs 25% I might have thought it mattered. So all we are looking at is 28% vs 24%? what is that? 1 in 4.16 vs 1 in 3.57 ? two tears in a bucket!
Duh... We needed to pay for a study to tell us that having two or three babies at once is more stressful and financially harder than having one baby? I am constantly shocked at the amount of "studies" that are done to tell people things that anyone with any common sense would already know!!!!
They must be really bored over there in London.
Agreed. There isn't enough information in the article to make it worth reading. I'd like to see a table of divorce stats with at least age, income, children,duration of marriage, and other common factors.
Maybe these statistics are true in Britain, where this study was done, but over here, if people can't afford to raise their multiple kids, they just get their own reality TV show, and Bob's your uncle (as they say in Britain).
My twins just turned nine and I just filed for divorce. It seem that instead of helping me with the twins he was more concerned about his needs and found someone online. The financial problems were centered more around his company and losing nearly everything to it. I don't know if his lack of help in the parenting department was the major problem or his selfishness. Nobody wants to see a show about just twins so I am going back to college. It was quite a challenge raising two on my own but wouldn't trade it for anything.