Sex before marriage makes marriage meaningless.
Fornication is the forgotten sin.
Unfortunately, it clearly cannot be entirely blamed on the minority communities in the Bible belt. There has to be other factors at play here.
I guess they didn’t check the hollywood biblebelt because they don’t have one.
It wouldn’t have anything to do with the fact thar the largest percentage of the black population lives in the bible belt would it. There are very few black families that stay together for the duration of their marriage. Most probably don’t make it past their 2nd year.
Map seems totally bass ackwards: Deepest color (greatest “intactness”) in the blue cities and metro areas, lightest in flyover country.
Most blacks live in the South and skew the polling for others, as black families are in crises. 72% of black babies are born to single women. But all the political energy is spent trying to make the white man confess to being raciest and demanding reparations of one kind or another. They need to work on re-establishing the nuclear black family. They need to look at themselves.
I wonder if this study repeats the fallacy
of many like it:
A divorces are counted but splits between,
say, cohabitating couples is not.
I think the main issues are that education is simply on average inferior in the South relative to the rest of the area and that welfare dependency is out of control. And to varying degrees I do believe it affects Southerners of all races, not just one race.
I heard one theory about this problem that I can believe.
They get married young there before they are ready or really know what they are doing, mostly hormones.
I am not Catholic but I always like the idea of requiring classes on marriage before the Church will marry.
And no, 1930 back when my Grandmother got married is not coming back.
Similar to the call for more government when government programs fail, so the church fails to understand that the condemnation of the law is sin's strength (1 Cor 15:56), so they just pour on more old testament condemnation and law.
The answer is the gospel of the grace of God (Acts 20:24) by which we are no longer dominated by sin because we are no longer under the law (Romans 6:14-15). The church must turn from the twice-cursed false gospel of law and works (Galatians 1:7-9) and once again "earnestly contend for the faith that was once delivered to the saints" (Jude 3).
It is this true gospel that is the power of God to save, heal, and deliver that allows us to "reign in life by one, Jesus Christ" (Romans 5:17).
At least the people who are getting divorced got married in the first place. The WSJ said that in some cities, NYC and Silicon Valley, for example, many singles are not interested in marriage.
People in the Bible Belt are at least giving it a try.
Totally fallacious. Correlation is not causation.
Interesting.
I wonder if this is because people don’t look at marriage as a Sacrament, a holy covenant.
“The black family is just in meltdown crisis on family and on marriage,” the researcher argued, “and that’s what locking them into poverty.”
True picture of the South with its many areas of black population. A real crisis for family values.
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It’d be interesting to see a map of, essentially, is the father (or a stepfather of over 5 years marriage to the mother) still married to the mother, or at least regularly living with the family.
Because people in Liberal areas don’t get married as often...in other words, there are no marriages to break up.
So build a wall and stop the Northern liberals from infecting the South.
Surely, those aren't the only two alternatives (or at least the relationship between different factors is a lot more complicated than that).