Interesting Links for 10-03-2019

[andrewducker]

10 most awkward work moments

(tags:work funny )

5 Ways We Train Teenage Girls To Love Psychopaths

(tags:relationships abuse society )

The USA (and UK) is really messed up when it comes to platonic intimacy

(tags:relationships usa uk society )

Entirely automated recycling facility which processes 90 tons per hour

(tags:recycling automation video )

Japanese woman confirmed as world's oldest person aged 116

(tags:age Japan )

Humanist marriages least likely to end in divorce

(tags:divorce religion scotland )

Comments

[naath]

I expect, I may be wrong, that a large factor at play is that the type of couple likely to want a humanist wedding are celebrating an existing long term happy relationship and desiring some legal recognition (and tax breaks) (having perhaps had any number of previous relationships that didn't make it that far; and so never got 'divorced' because they never bother to marry) and the type of couple likely to want a religious ceremony (when humanist ceremonies are easily available) are celebrating the start of what they hope will be a happy long-term relationship in the belief that having the relationship first would be not the sort of thing the church would like. A rather fundamental disconnect in the idea of what marriage is *for*.

[haggis]

Your comment and Doug's final line bring up another issue - the number of people in marriages of any sort are a subset of the number of people in long-term relationships and the number of people divorcing in any given year are a subset of couple breaking up in any given year. They are the easiest group for bureaucracy to track but not necessarily representative.