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Here's a sampling of some of the most recently available statistics on marriage and divorce in the United States of America:
The divorce rate in 2005 (per 1,000 people) was 3.6 -- the lowest rate since 1970, and down from 4.2 in 2000 and from 4.7 in 1990. (The peak was at 5.3 in 1981, according to the Associated Press.)
In 2004, the state with the highest reported divorce rate was Nevada, at 6.4 (per 1,000). Arkansas was a close second, with a divorce rate of 6.3, followed by Wyoming at 5.3. The District of Columbia had the lowest reported divorce rate, at 1.7, followed by Massachusetts at 2.2 and Pennsylvania at 2.5.
http://www.divorcemag.com/statistics/statsUS.shtml
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Must not be watching much porn in DC and Mass.
I wonder how many people in Mass or D.C. cohabitate rather than marry? The whole porn deal also has its most extreme issue in a few cases where a guy dumps his wife for a girl, that’s not to say that I don’t doubt the statistics, but it’s flexible and open to interpretation in a number of ways. Again, statistics are “plastic” i.e. people can still come up with a variety of conclusions and question the source.