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Totally Tunsie

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2. Hmmmm - I was thinking both the birth rate and divorce rate would rise,

Reply to No Vested Interest (Reply #1)

Sun Aug 30, 2020, 04:15 AM

Aug 2020

since that's not mutually exclusive.

Regarding the birth rate: All those people home, can't go anywhere, lots of time to fill, and in the beginning still an exciting newness. Of course, once the deed is done and time wears on, the "newness" disappears and revulsion starts to set in, raising the divorce rate.

In any event, it will be interesting to see how the final numbers shake out when we're looking back on COVID.

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Divorce rates in America soar 34% during the COVID-19 epidemic. [View all] SergeStorms Aug 2020 OP

I've been wondering if the birth rate will plunge like in the 1930's. No Vested Interest Aug 2020 #1

Hmmmm - I was thinking both the birth rate and divorce rate would rise, Totally Tunsie Aug 2020 #2

I pretty much thought this was going to happen. smirkymonkey Aug 2020 #3

Could see that coming from day 1. Fla Dem Aug 2020 #4