Posted on 05/06/2014 5:41:56 AM PDT by xzins
Good point.
I remember that now that you mention it.
Re point b) — I was reading an article on CNN the other day (clearly targeted at women), and one quote that struck me was, “no matter what your feelings are, they are completely valid.”
Yes...That is what Goebbels meant by “THE BIG LIE”.
(Sorry to break Godwin’s law, but it’s TRUE!)
Indeed. I think it is more like 2-3 percent.
It has always been part of the Marxist Agenda to destroy the most ancient and honorable Institution of Civilization, which is, of course, Marriage and family.
Yes. And we KNOW who that enemy is.
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.
I have two sisters who have married multiple times, while I have remained married only once over the same time period.
I agree, the numbers are skewed in that those who divorce once have a 100 percent divorce rate, and they are more likely to divorce again. So that 50% total divorce rate - per marriage- may be correct, but misleading!
I think the OP is correct in that per person, the divorce rate, or the chance an individual in their first marriage will ever get divorced is much, much lower.
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.
90% of people marry and stay married. (90 marriages and no divorces out of 100 people).
10% of people get married and divorced 10 times each (100 marriages and 100 divorces out of 100 people).
That’s 190 marriages and 100 divorces, which can falsely be taken as that more than a third of marriages end in divorce.
I saw one of these Oprah-esque magazine quizzes asking women if their spouses were “emotionally abusive”.
Question #1 was “is there something wrong in your relationship, but you really can’t define what it is?”
Just how in the hell is a man supposed to go about addressing a problem that no one can even define??
Marriage precedes creation. It’s of God.
Indeed...
It’s also the backbone of the family which is the cornerstone of civilization and society.
Thanks for the morning snark.
LOL!
Those rags are straight from the pit of hell. Same tactic he used in the Garden of Eden. Nothing really changes much.
Question your marriage, think you deserve “more” or “better”, and shouldn’t you have or “feel” this?
What utter nonsense!
There’s a problem here.
“First-time marriages: probably 20 to 25 percent have ended in divorce on average.”
That just counts first-time marriages. There is no reference to them for them rest of the article, so is it *only* about first-time marriages?
If you count multiple marriages, the statistics get really skewed. Take Mickey Rooney, for example. Married eight times. His first, second, and third wife were also married three times; number four was married twice; number five just once; six and seven unknown; and eight twice.
So nine people with at least 16 unique marriages between them.
Yes. They (the left)has been doing this for years. The media simply re-enforces the ideas that marriage is archaic and is bad for women, and ends in divorce; and, we simply can't be monogomous for long periods of time. All that B.S. "Gay" marriage is just the latest attempt to discredit marriage as being a stabilizing force in society, and the best environment to raise children. Everything they do and say about marriage is really about destroying marriage.
Same with the constant images and characters of men as complete dufuses and women as always the strong, reliable characters who have no need for a man at home, nor do their children. Destroying marriage --- increasing reliance on the State.
Yes. I believe that.
Absolutely. It is all by design.
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or Responsibility2nd to subscribe or unsubscribe from the moral absolutes ping list. [ Add keyword moral absolutes to flag FR articles to this ping list ]Good news. I knew it wasn't 50%, one reason was that people who get divorced are more likely to divorce upon re-marrying. But this is even better. Makes you wonder why the idea that marriage so often ends in divorce is promoted. Well, I don't wonder; those leading us into the moral abyss want to destroy marriage and family, so making the public feel hopeless about marriage is vital for their plans.
“I am using WAG estimates to prove a mathematical point, as government statistics do not include all states, every year, for divorce and marriage”
Actually, you are using a SWAG. A WAG (wild ass guess) means you are just pulling a random number out of the air. While a SWAG (Scientific Wild Ass Guess) means you actually manipulated two numbers that may or not be related to each other to come up with the number used.
Check back on your discussion and I believe you will see that I am correct. Other than that minor issue, it is a well presented discussion.
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