Unfortunately, the stats are about the same. Marriage is under a supernatural attack as well as a societal attack. I believe it'll just get worse as we draw nearer to the return of Christ.
As for me, Mrs. Smittie and I are about to celebrate our 23rd anniversary and courted for 12 years before that. God blessed me with her and she says that she's been blessed, though I don't think I'd be much of a blessing for anyone to live with...
Michelle Goldberg in The Nation:
1. This study also finds that religiously unaffiliated Americans, and counties with higher shares of unaffiliated Americans, are the most likely to divorce. So, religion per se is not the problem and, indeed, secularism seems to be more conducive towards divorce than conservative Protestantism.
2. A new article by sociologist Charles Stokes in www.family-studies.org suggests that the problem here is mainly with nominal conservative Protestantsthose who attend rarely or never. It’s these nominal conservative Protestantse.g., the Southern Baptist couple in Texas who rarely darken the door of a churchwho are much more likely to divorce.