Divorce Rate Lower in Blue States??????

Vanity Question | 11-22-04 | Dagny

[Diogenesis]

In Massachusetts, Charles Stuart was encouraged to murder
his wife, rather than divorce her.

That is yet a further contributor.

[anniegetyourgun]

Bill says lots of thing.....most of it untrue....

[.cnI redruM]

Dagny,

They get sticky about giving you big AFDC payments if the baby's father doesn't conveniently vanish from the scene.

-redruM

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Maybe blue states have more people who just live together without benefit of marriage?

Ya think?

[Dagny Taggart]

Boy, That's a good one!

[TommyDale]

The blue states have much lower moral standards, and probably have more cohabitation per capita.

[finnman69]

http://powerlineblog.com/archives/008687.php

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1281125/posts

[Dagny Taggart]

Duh! LOL

[Prime Choice]

Figures don't lie, but liars often figure.

It should be noted that inhabitants of Blue States are more likely to shack up than marry. This explains any alleged discrepancy in divorce rates since they never marry in the first place, but instead play "musical beds" every other weekend.

[finnman69]

[bayourod]

The lowest divorce rate is Nevada. That's because billions of people go to Las Vegas, get drunk, get married, come back home, sober up and get divorced.

[JIM O]

I think they forgot their candidate was divorced.

[Sangria]

The blue states have open marriages.

[steplock]

What does bill know about morality issues?

NOTHING!

[finnman69]

Divorce rates cited by liberals are based on a per capita basis. Not on the percentage of divorces against marriages which gives you the true percentage of marriages ending in divorce.

[Popman]

Could that be because so many people in the inner cities never got married in the first place?

Hard to get divorced if you are co habituating

Exactly correct

The same goes for the elitist who claim religious people have the same divorce record as non religious people.

On paper they may, but it needs to be weighted to reflect the co habitation situations.

A divorce rate at all for people of faith is nothing to be proud of, but apples should be compared to apples.

[Modernman]

IIRC, part of the reason marriages in red states are more likely to break up is because people in those states tend to get married at a younger age.

The younger the bride and groom, the more likely that divorce will occur.

[Chad Fairbanks]

Thats easy - marriage rates are lower in Blue States.

[holdmuhbeer]

Sorry to say but I'm about to add the the statistics of divorce in a red state. sorry folks but it wasn't my idea.