Posted on 05/06/2014 5:41:56 AM PDT by xzins
Shaunti and Jeff point out the 50 percent figure came from projections of what researchers thought the divorce rate would become as they watched the divorce numbers rising in the 1970s and early 1980s when states around the nation were passing no-fault divorce laws.
"But the divorce rate has been dropping," Feldhahn said. "We've never hit those numbers. We've never gotten close."
Maybe this is just paranoid thinking on my part...
BUT, could it be possible that the 50% Divorce Rate Figure has been planted into our media and popular culture by those who want to discredit marriage and family?
Why else would we be fed such a lie?
And, when arguing for “Same Sex Marriage”, its proponents OFTEN cite this figure to justify their own position.
The 50% figure has been bandied about for at least as long as the push for the destruction of the Traditional Family has.
Has anyone else thought of this?
This fact doesn’t fot the progressive agenda ergo it can’t be true. The MSM now calls marriage “civil unions” so homos can say they’re “married” to make it “official”. Marriage between a man and a woman is so old school and outdated you know...
Yep. Satan hates marriage because it embraces fidelity, loyalty, and love...
Amen.
Actually, the research was out there to suggest all along that 50% was way on the high side. Extrapolating from different data, my own personal conclusion was that about a third of marriages putatively end in divorce. I’m happy to see that it’s lower still.
Any lie, repeated often enough, will eventually be accepted as the truth.
Thanks for this post.
Even relying on the “old understandings”, there was always the difference between saying half of all marriages end in divorce, and half of all people who marry will get divorced. There are a lot of serial marrieds that push the divorce rate up.
From what I’ve seen? I bet further study would show that homosexual marriages end in divorce at a FAR HIGHER rate.
> From what I’ve seen? I bet further study would show that homosexual marriages end in divorce at a FAR HIGHER rate.
Any marriage that begins with two animals being attracted to each other by sniffi g each other a$$es won’t end well...just my opinion...
This isn’t the first time I’ve heard that first marriages last 75% of the time. And the 25% who get divorced and remarried tend to get divorced again and mess up the overall statistics.
I wish they included some of the raw numbers in this article though.
Another point to consider is that the researchers appear to be looking only at first marriages. The divorce rate for people who have multiple “marriages” is likely higher.
In my own family, between my wife’s and my siblings, there are a total of nine siblings, 13 marriages, and five divorces. That’s a divorce rate of nearly 40%. But among the nine siblings, there are only two persons who have been divorced at all. That’s 22%. Of eight first marriages, there were two that ended in divorce. That’s 25%.
That’s consistent with other “statistics” homosexuals have been trumpeting, namely the lie that 10% of the population has this mental illness.
Statistics are always unreliable.
“”But the divorce rate has been dropping,” Feldhahn said. “We’ve never hit those numbers. We’ve never gotten close.” “
The marriage rate has been dropping too. That means only those who want to get married are doing it which is probably good.
The other consideration is regarding Catholics. Do the divorce statistics count catholic “annulments” ?
Medved has been harping on this for decades. It is one of those pop-culture parroted myths.
An annulment must be preceded by a legal divorce. So, only the divorce is counted whether the person gets an annulment or not.
Another liberal myth being shattered ??
This is such wonderful news, I wonder if anyone besides a few here at FR will hear about it. I would love for the MSM to pick this up, but really doubt that they will, because it doesn’t fit in with the left’s agenda of destroying families.
There are roughly 2.2 million marriages every year.
There are roughly 1.1 million divorces every year.
That is how they come up with the statistic of 50% of marriages end in divorce.
But to find out the RATE of divorce, you need to put the number of divorces over the total number of marriages that exist in the country.
If there are fifty million marriages that exist in America, then that is 1.1 million divorces over 50,000,000 marriages, or a rate of 2.2% that end in divorce in a given year.
I am using WAG estimates to prove a mathematical point, as government statistics do not include all states, every year, for divorce and marriage.
The rate of divorce in a given year is nowhere near 50% or even 25%.
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