Posted on 05/06/2014 5:41:56 AM PDT by xzins
This isn’t really news. The ‘1 in 2 marriages end in divorce’ has never been true, despite being repeated on tv and other media frequently.
I don’t know about others, but I’m 43 and have been married for 22 years. My Depression-Era, Christian grandparents who raised me were married for 60 years. They taught me that life and marriage can be hard and that when you’re going through hell, you cry out to God and push on, because a) you said you would and b) the end result is so worth it.
The numbers I have seen are:
85% of people who get married stay married.
15% of people who get married have three or more spouses in their lifetime.
The math just about matches that 50% divorce rate lie that has become so common.
The above number as well as the author’s numbers match my own experience over 60 years or so.
We’ve been lied to for a century. The question is can we turn it around? The government school system continues to indoctrinate our children. That’s the key.
There are 5 siblings between my family and my husband’s. Of the 5, only one marriage has survived. (My husband’s brother has been divorced twice and married 3 times, don’t know how you figure that.)
The only marriage that has stayed together is ours, and if we make it till December we will be married for 57 years.
You’re spot on. The whole deviant sex thing is a theme of the Left as well. If everybody is having queer sex, then what’s so queer about it?
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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.
Yes, and liberals do love their myths.
They’ll probably enlist people to go out and get divorced or married-and-divorced just to keep the numbers up and their myth going.
Do I think they’re that fanatical? Yep. (Although I am being a bit sarcastic.)
Your family's experience illustrates an important point. In constructing divorce statistics, you can count the fraction of all marriages that end in divorce or you can count the number of ever-married people who are or have been divorced. The former will give a larger fraction because divorced people who remarry are more likely to divorce again. A good website is http://nationalmarriageproject.org/
A bigger problem is young people deciding to cohabitate without the benefit of marriage in the first place.
Strangely much of this is driven by young women, using pretzel logic that if they never get married, they’ll never know the pain of divorce.
Though they might know the pain of their baby daddy picking up and running off with a younger woman, leaving them high and dry.
I'd say that's much more than likely. Pewrpetrated by the same people who tell us that 10-20% of the population is gay. They're working for the enemy.
In modern times, the statistic is bound to improve even more, because, I suspect, those more likely to divorce are less likely to marry in the first place (since no-commitment shacking up is the cultural norm now).
My experience has also told me the often quoted 50% number was bogus. My guess was always that those who divorce and remarry over and over skew the numbers, but it turned out the numbers were completely bogus to begin with.
My experience says that these researchers are probably right...that the rate of divorce is about 25% for first time marriages.
The frequency of divorce over a specified period of time is generally the method used in researching divorce rate. The period of time is often 5 year increments.
So, the rate of divorce for first marriages at the cohort 5 year mark compared with all cohort marriages at the 5 year mark.
(or 10 years)
Yep. Even when the 'married' fag in question is a bishop. The divorce for fag married bishops is 100%!
If the calculations are done correctly the statistics are reliable. It's the conclusions are often incorrect.
I agree with that, and I think that women, in particular, are beginning to see that poverty awaits them if they get pregnant outside of wedlock.
Poverty is a huge negative, and the story of poverty is beginning to spread.
In my experience, couples I know who have divorced experienced one of two scenarios:
a) The man was not willing to keep to his marriage vows and engaged in adulterous behavior
or
b) The woman bought into a bunch of Oprah-esque pop psych philosophies that she had a “right” to be absolutely happy. Something that is utterly unattainable on this Earth, and which no man is able to provide.
During the Reagan administration a guy by the name of Mitch Snyder claimed that there were three million homeless people in the U.S. and the press ran with it for years. Turns out he made it up.
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