Comments about ‘Married men likely to make more money than those who divorce’

Yeah, I hope they make more, because their expenses are about 100 times higher than when they're single. And heaven forbid a family should want the mom to stay home to raise the kids. That seems almost a crime these days.

Certainly, the strain of divorce can have a negative impact on a man's productivity, however, lack of productivity can also put strain on a man's marriage. It is easy to measure correlation but difficult to know the direction of causation. Does divorce cause lack of productivity or does lack of productivity cause divorce? Do men make more money because they are married or are they married because they make more money? Causation can run either direction depending on the circumstances.

The article confuses economic growth with productivity. While population growth can fuel GDP, merely growing the population does not increase our standard of living. It is GDP PER CAPITA that matters and this is increased by workers being able to produce more per unit of time. This is where the dramatic increases in our standard of living over the past several decades has come from (and this is what we care about). Growth in productivity is driven by advances in human capital, physical capital, technology, and natural resource availability. Population growth is not a factor.

The picture of these two people posing for this article is quite realistic. Both people look as if they really find it impossible to get along.

If they aren't already actors, they ought to consider it.

As in many other issues, this is not always true.
Media often discuss the lifestyles of successful, wealthy Americans. Donald Trump and others enjoying vast wealth, also seem to enjoy a variety of spouses. Divorce doesn't seem to chink their armor.

It would have made a better story if the data included the income of single never-married men. Single childless men who choose responsibility, and did not marry or reproduce; make a whole lot more than the divorced or married men.

Cool story about Greg Battersby on the website link! In family relations, Love is spelled TIME.

Yes, true it is. I was a richer man prior to my divorce. Ex is taking a large chunk. Oh the good I could do with that chunk!

I think the root cause is neither marriage nor money. It's the mindset of those willing to make a commitment, whether to a marriage or career, that coincidentally is likely to see them stay married and/or make more money.

This article, along with all the others about divorce, fails to bring up something important. Marriage is a 2 person deal. Having kids is a 2 person deal. Yet when divorce happens, MEN are always to blame and they get the brunt of the support. When I got divorced, she filed, not me, because she didn't want to move away from her mom. So I got jacked. Child support should be a half and half system. It should not be that hard to find the median cost to raise a child, and split the cost. Both parents are responsible. There is always circumstances where one parent is directly responsible because of infidelity or such, but that can be resolved with Alimony\Palimoney. The reason men do worse after divorce is primarily because child support laws are skewed towards favoring the mother. Also, allowing the ex spouse to take more of the other ones money every three years is wrong as well.

'Married men likely to make more money than those who divorce'

Stop the presses, LOL. Did that really need to be said. Most divorced men I know don't just make less than married men, they downright live in poverty once their wages are garnished.