tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post2704094477651570345..comments2024-03-28T21:56:51.675-04:00Comments on Face to Face: Mail-order brides as a sign of gynocracyagnostichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12967177967469961883noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-84924663382624254452014-01-23T14:25:10.842-05:002014-01-23T14:25:10.842-05:00In forums where pickup artists compare notes, you ...In forums where pickup artists compare notes, you learn that Mediterranean and Balkan countries are tough nuts to crack, while Northern / Eastern Europe is more like shooting fish in a barrel.<br /><br />On divorce rates, this guy looked through what data there is and found that around 20% of mail-order brides end in divorce over the long term:<br /><br />http://www.returnofkings.com/4658/dont-believe-the-lies-about-foreign-brides<br /><br />Let's just say that's lower than the national average of the husband's country. (It's hard to calculate what fraction of marriages end in divorce; most "rates" are divorces compared to marriages within a year, not following spouses over time.)<br /><br />Still, you'd wonder how much of that advantage comes from the two having met through a marriage-arrangement service. Such people are way more likely to want to get married and stay married. Whether the bride is foreign / Slavic / Asian may not matter. You'd have to compare mail-order brides to native brides who met their husband through eHarmony or something.<br /><br />Here are the results from a peer reviewed study on divorce rates across various ways of meeting your spouse, online and offline, and through a service or not:<br /><br />http://www.eharmony.com/press-release/57/<br /><br />It looks like eHarmony marriages are 1/3 of a standard deviation less likely to divorce than those who met offline. That makes me suspect that the greater success of mail-order bride marriages (if true) is just due to selection bias. Fickle folks aren't going to go through all the trouble of such services.<br /><br />Be interesting to see a more careful comparison, though.agnostichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12967177967469961883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-11541772969998910082014-01-23T11:02:34.312-05:002014-01-23T11:02:34.312-05:00Excellent analysis.
Not surprised to see prostitu...Excellent analysis.<br /><br />Not surprised to see prostitution is also higher in these places, where men obtain mail order brides. I knew one guy who got a mail order bride from the Philippines back in 1995, she left him in 1996. He was a strange guy, worked in a local pizzeria, paid off the books and collected disabilityAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17378562153671027345noreply@blogger.com