Relationships

 

I went to the very good Minchenden Grammar school in North London.

What is remarkable about our year, is that of the hundred or so we are still roughly in contact with, the divorce rate is very much lower than average. I've said this to others of my age (59) and some have noted the same thing and others have said that at their school most had got divorced, even though the mix of children was probably about the same for all schools.

It just seems to me that perhaps how children are educated has a lot bigger effect than we think. We were a mixed school and in the last two years or so, there was a lot of platonic friendships across the sexes. Perhaps this was very valuable experience for when we got married.