Married couples are the minority nowadays

Started by purelife, Sep 12 07 10:08

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purelife

I heard on the news this morning that married couples are now at the minority according to Stats Can!  (omg, I am posting stats! LOL!)

  Anyways, they were saying that many people are either divorced, separated or single parents.  If I heard correctly, they said that 1 in 4 are raising kids alone.  

  I can believe that.  I know many people who have been divorced at least once in their lives.

P.C.

At least those stats aren't subjective purelife.  They are what they are.

  I've been divorced once. [img style="CURSOR: pointer" onclick=url(this.src); src="vny!://www.cheesebuerger.de/images/smilie/froehlich/c025.gif" border=0]
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Gopher

Well, at least I'm in the majority of something!
A fool's paradise is better than none.

JJ

I now officially belong to a minority than, I'm married.

Sportsdude

haha I was going to post this. We talked about it in sociology class.
"We can't stop here. This is bat country."

Sportsdude

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"We can't stop here. This is bat country."

Lise

I guess I'm in the minority. It's funny though to see the stats change over the years. A nuclear family isn't so common any more. I do wonder about these single parents bringing up their kids. How do they survive? It's so expensive these days that it takes two incomes just to get by.
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Bill Cosby.

Sportsdude

it takes two incomes just to pay rent. lol That's how the whole common law over marriage started. Couples have to move in together now, much to the dismay of religion folks. People move in together now not just for relationship purposes but economical ones.  
"We can't stop here. This is bat country."

purelife

Or, continue living with parents to save money because most of our parents are done with paying mortgages. :))  

Sportsdude

done with the mortgages? wow that's unheard of back home.  
"We can't stop here. This is bat country."

Lil Me

We can't write-off our mortgage interest on taxes here in Canada.
 So we want to pay it off as soon as we can.
   
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49er

Lil Me wrote:
We can't write-off our mortgage interest on taxes here in Canada.
So we want to pay it off as soon as we can.
 
 Buy a house, rent it to your parents and you rent your parents' house.  You and your parents get to write off all expenses on the house you each own since each becomes income property.

P.C.

You can't win for losing 49er.  The insurance for landlords is out of this world.....and renters insurance is equally crazy.  They would both be doubling up on that.

  I think what you get to claim is home improvements on a rental property.
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49er

as an investment you get to claim.....

mortgage interest

insurance

depreciation

repairs

etc.

P.C.

Right.....thanks 49er.  I knew I was half speaking out of my hat.  Hubby handled all the stuff with our rental property so I knew very little of it.  (we sold it a while back.....good riddance)  

  *a rental property is only a good idea if the rent actually covers the mortgage payment.....lol
Sir Isaac Newton invented the swinging door....for the convenience of his cat.