[LoneStarGI]

I can only speak for myself, but my conservative friends actually get married, while those I know who are DIMs don’t get married, they ‘co-habitat’. So I could understand why ‘divorce’ (ie opposite of marriage) is higher in conservative areas.

[Oliviaforever]

No, the research is more insidious than that.

They are working with percentages and the number of marriages would not impact that.

They have either corrupted the data or are attacking efforts to protect traditional marriage.

[Mrs. Don-o]

You got it. The divorce rate is always lower where the marriage rate is low, because unmarried couples can couple and decouple and couple and decouple multiple times, and it never counts as a divorce.

That's why statistics are misleading.

And in some cases, deliberately misleading.