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"Unattractive" people get hit on, cheat, and have marital problems too you know. It's from the other "unattractive" people. Look at the divorce rate in the US alone, are 50% of couples having problems and getting a divorce only the attractive 1/2 of all marriges while all of the unattractive ones stay happily married?

From http://www.divorcerate.org/
50% percent of first marriages, 67% of second and 74% of third marriages end in divorce, according to Jennifer Baker of the Forest Institute of Professional Psychology in Springfield, Missouri.

And in other news...divorce continues skyrocketing,

Seriously kids, realize that your significant other can lock you out of your own accounts on breakup, and you can't recover everything via your phone #, pretty sure like... netflix, email providers that aren't google.

Maybe that comes from the fact that Asians are not as lazy and against "stupid jobs" (when they are in fact the most useful ones) as Americans?

So many citations needed here. Okay so you say "the fact" and I'm asking you where you get your "facts."

You say that Asians have this awesome work ethic and will do all the dirty work? How do you prove that? If you go by GDP per capita, I think the US is doing alright comparatively.

Could you please prove that Americans are against "stupid jobs?" I used to pick rock, bail hay, bus tables, work at a parking booth, etc. Now I code computers. There's my pitiful sample set of "one" please send me your numbers that prove it is applicable to all Americans. I think a lot of Americans working in the middle of nowhere get overlooked by people like you.

When you say "(when they are in fact the most useful ones)" I question how objective the superlative "most useful" is here. The factory worker, the quality control worker, the designer, the investors, etc. They all have a use. Which is "most useful" is totally a matter of opinion. The question I have for you is, do you think that Apple would just stop making iPhones if they were suddenly not allowed to import them from China? I highly doubt it.

I challenge you to grow up and to stop relying on tired stereotypes.

It applies to work, woman and everything. Everyone is selfish and looking for their own good, in a way or another.

So what you're saying is that you've learned that there is no place for love or satisfaction of a job well done? Just money? I'm really really sad you find yourself in that position ... keep manipulating your wife based on her greed. You know what else Americans are good at? Divorce.

The word was that match.com contributed to 10% of US marriages some years ago. An online source didn't confirm this at the moment but says a 3-year study granted them a score of 17% couples married.

For the half-full means half-empty crowd, divorce is still winning offline and online.

The real threat to marriage is actually divorce.


41% of first marriages end in divorce. [1]

I would say we should bring out a petition to outlaw divorce. Since, it is obvious who the group of people would be to sign it. I would say that make that petition visible to everyone too. I don't think gays/marriage preservers would mind that. After all we are standing up for marriage!

And of course, we should have the thunderous support of all these marriage preserving groups like NOM -- how could you not support something that promotes family wholeness?? < Cue in Ad of a lonely bedraggled child, saying how he would be perfect if his parents hadn't divorced >

The bible does not espouse divorce [2], so it must be a sin, of course! Hey, you started the wholesomeness of marriage thing. Now it would be hypocritical for you to oppose this, wouldn't it?

Sources:
[1] www.divorcerate.org
[2] Catholic Church and Divorce

to a person they have pledged their life to

The statistics disagree with you: 50% percent of first marriages, 67% of second and 74% of third marriages end in divorce ( http://www.divorcerate.org/ ) Average length of a marriage is 8 years ( http://www.census.gov/prod/2005pubs/p70-97.pdf )

You just made my point. You pledge "Until Death do us part" but some just don't keep that pledge. And of those that have already proven not to keep that pledge, they are more likely not to again...

to a person they have pledged their life to

The statistics disagree with you:

50% percent of first marriages, 67% of second and 74% of third marriages end in divorce ( http://www.divorcerate.org/ )
Average length of a marriage is 8 years ( http://www.census.gov/prod/2005pubs/p70-97.pdf )