When do people get married and divorced?

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May 232011
 

Getting Married Later

The United States Census Bureau just released results from the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) on marriage and divorce. My wife and I just celebrated our four-year anniversary this past weekend, so naturally I had to take a look.

The survey of about 39,000 households was actually taken in 2009 (The government can be slow sometimes.), but it provides a glimpse of how marriage and divorce has changed when you compare it to surveys from previous years.

My main takeaway was that people appear to be getting married at an older age, and as you get into the older age groups, the percentages for people who have married at least once are in the high 90s. The former doesn't surprise me simply because it matches with personal observation. The second part though was slightly surprising. For some reason, I always thought there were more people who went their whole lives without getting married.

Can you find any other interesting tidbits in the data?

"Nowhere is woman treated according to the merit of her work, but rather as a sex. It is therefore…"

 Emma Goldman, marriage, prostitution, Tumbld  No Responses »
Dec 152010
 
“Nowhere is woman treated according to the merit of her work, but rather as a sex. It is therefore almost inevitable that she should pay for her right to exist, to keep a position in whatever line, with sex favors. Thus it is merely a question of degree whether she sells herself to one man, in or out of marriage, or to many men.”

- Emma Goldman on marriage and prostitution. She skirts around condemning marriage outright in this century-old piece, but you can feel it, the condemnation, bubbling underneath passages like this one.
 Posted by on December 15, 2010

The Varieties Of Intimate Relationship

 ascetic, celibacy, chastity, cheating, clerical celibacy, co-dependency, common marriage, concept map, Data Visualisation, David McCandless, divorce, don't ask don't tell, empty marriage, foursome, friends with benefits, Fun, group marriage, InfoBeautiful, Information Design, Information Is Beautiful, InfoVisualisation, marriage, marriage to God, McCandless, monogamy, non-monogamy, open marriage, polyamory, polyfedility, polygamy, promiscuity, serial monogamy, soft swinging, sublimation, swinging, The Visual Miscellaneum, threesome, types of relationship, unicorn polyamory, varities of intimate relationship, visual miscellaneum, Visualization  No Responses »
Oct 212010
 

Intimate Relationship
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Something Spock might’ve knocked up in his first year at the Vulcan Science Academy.

That’s what I think when I look at this graphic. Now. Two years after myself and Laura Sullivan created it for my infographic book Information Is Beautiful (US | UK).

It’s been updated and regraphicked. I’ve folded in some new types of relationships from this awesome diagram from Franklin Veaux (via QuietRiotGirl).
Types of Relationship | Franklin Veaux (thanks to Elizabeth Dunn for sending!)

Sexperts! Let us know if we’ve missed anything.

RESEARCH & DESIGN: David McCandless & Laura Sullivan
ADDITIONAL DESIGN: Matt Hancock @ Pelican Jigsaw |
SOURCES: Wikipedia, The Ethical Slut, Franklin Veaux


 Posted by on October 21, 2010

Promo

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Mar 192010
 

Over the coffee we talk about designing promotive material for D’s classical trio (soprano, clarinet, piano): a flyleaf, I guess, with a CD inside. A friend could design it, but would have to wait for some honorarium.

The financial crisis and unemployment in Croatia do not help this kind of show business.

Brecht (and Weill, and Tom Waits): what keeps mankind alive? (It is sometimes very hard to find out.)