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we're talking about divorces. the 56% figure is for cohabitating unmarried couples, and it even confirms that for married couples it's 69%. i think you were looking at the graph on page 38 (which shows marriage prevalence by year, not divorce statistics)
you're correct that the 90% college-educated figure is wrong/unsupported though, so that was my mistake
I am referencing multiple different studies there that i didn't source/explain for the sake of brevity(laziness). Here is a pretty comprehensive one.
https://alemanchris.github.io/papers/JMP.pdf
Kiss now!!!! Kisss, Kissss, Kissssss, Kissssssssssss!that study measures who was the legal plaintiff, not who initiated/wanted the divorce, where the 69%-70% still stands. as in, if a husband and wife divorced because the wife wanted it, yet after the informal agreement the husband was the one who legally filed for divorce, it would falsely be cited as 'the husband wanting/initiating the divorce', which would not actually be the case.