[stormyseas]

Way to go and CONGRATS!!!! I wish that I could see more of this, it is such a wonderful thing to hear, wow people really do stay together sometimes? It seems we never hear it anymore. Do you know my daughter says it is uncommon to go to school and someone say their parents are still married. Divorce is "normal" in todays world. And it probably does have a lot to do with what goes on with our children. It would have to. No way around it, divorce means a lot, but on the other hand so does being married and live in hell, so children have to....If we could all go back to marriage with G-d as head, only then will we see a difference.

[B4Ranch]

I think the only reason divorce rates are falling is because we are seeing way too many IMO bastard children these days.

Why get married when there's no need to? It'll only end in a divorce anyway.

I'm happy to say the Mrs and I have survived 27 years so far without doing physical harm to each other. She keeps saying she'll poison me someday, as soon as she finds someone to rub her feet in the evening, I suppose my time will be done for.

[iconoclast]

Divorce is "normal" in todays world. And it probably does have a lot to do with what goes on with our children.

Statistics on murders BY children are exceedingly difficult to find. I did however find the following very interesting.

Incarceration of children
2,000 studies show that children from single-mother households (SMHs), compared to children with father present, are more likely to go to prison by twenty times.

Suicide by children
Fatherless children are more likely to commit suicide by five times.

Murder by children
Fatherless children are more likely to commit murder by eight times.

Children's behavioral problems
Fatherless children are more likely to have behavioral problems by twenty times.

Likelihood of children to become rapists
Fatherless children are more likely to become rapists by fourteen times.

Become runaways
Fatherless children are more likely to run away by thirty two times.

Drug users
Fatherless children are more likely to abuse chemical substances by ten times.

Drop outs
Fatherless children are more likely to drop out of high school by nine times.

From: http://christianparty.net/aa.htm