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To: xzins

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” ?


15 posted on 05/06/2014 6:03:48 AM PDT by staytrue
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To: staytrue

An annulment must be preceded by a legal divorce. So, only the divorce is counted whether the person gets an annulment or not.


17 posted on 05/06/2014 6:07:23 AM PDT by xzins ( Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! Those who truly support our troops pray for victory!)
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To: staytrue

This is what I was thinking. You can send me all the statistics you want - it’s like the lies coming from the White House and the murder rate in Chicago. Use your eyes, look around, and see for yourself.

I know probably as many married couples as I know divorced individuals. Some of the married are on second marriages. And also, I know many people living together with a long term partner that don’t want to get married - for whatever reason. These are people that may have gotten married in the past and then divorced. Another fact lowering the rate. The other thing easy to see? Plenty of Divorce Attorneys with full client rosters and plenty of cases on the docket.

Divorce also doesn’t carry the stigma that it used to. And if you’re in an unhealthy marriage that comes with a lot of conflict - especially with kids in the picture, it’s not a good environment to raise and teach kids in. Kids are not stupid. My friends children were relieved when he got divorced.

Each and every case is different, and if there were an honest show of hands here I bet we’d see more than a 25% divorce rate.


28 posted on 05/06/2014 6:16:44 AM PDT by TangledUpInBlue (I have no home. I'm the wind.)
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To: staytrue
Statistics are always unreliable.

If the calculations are done correctly the statistics are reliable. It's the conclusions are often incorrect.

37 posted on 05/06/2014 6:31:36 AM PDT by ladyjane
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To: staytrue
The other consideration is regarding Catholics. Do the divorce statistics count catholic “annulments” ?

Unsure of the reason for quotations; however, a civil divorce happens before any annulment proceedings take place. So, no, this really has no bearing on the statistics being discussed.

47 posted on 05/06/2014 6:54:04 AM PDT by workerbee (The President of the United States is DOMESTIC ENEMY #1!)
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To: staytrue
Do the divorce statistics count catholic “annulments” ?

Thanks for the morning snark.

53 posted on 05/06/2014 7:24:07 AM PDT by pbear8 (the Lord is my light and my salvation)
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