http://nypost.com/2016/03/29/millennials-latest-mistake-embracing-the-starter-marriage/By David Kaufman
March 29, 2016 | 8:34pm
For whether they call it a “starter” marriage, “beta” marriage or “test” marriage, the 25- to 35-year-old generation has a far more elastic definition of the concept of “forever.”
How elastic? A recent study found that 43 percent of millennials supported a form of marriage that allowed couples to easily split up after two years, while a full third were open to “marriage licenses” valid — like mortgages — for set periods of time. It’s an impressive figure, especially when you consider just a third of respondents still believe that marriage is “till death do us part.”
For most of American history, “starter” marriages — and their subsequent divorces — would stain and stigmatize literally until the grave. But today, they’re merely early-adulthood indiscretions (almost) as forgettable as a Facebook status update.
Like the social media that so rules their lives, millennials’ approach to marriage is all here and now — rather than here and forever. But while marriages may be easy to erase, millennials will learn the hard way that pain and loss are not so simple to swipe away.
(Excerpted. There's a lot more, and it goes into some other important topics.)
