Posted on 07/25/2014 4:31:45 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
An April 2014 Urban Institute study predicts that if current marriage rates do not rebound, just 69 percent of Millennial women (and 65 percent of men) will marry by the age of 40. By contrast, in 1990, 91 percent of U.S.-born women had married by the age of 40.
Almost none of this retreat from marriage will be felt among college-educated white Americans. The majority of college-educated Millennials will marry and have their children in marriages that last until the death of one partner.
Meanwhile, the average American lives in a world where sex is plentiful but stable families are not, leading many a Millennial to conclude that there is little point in marriage at all. You can’t fail at what you don’t attempt.
Into this explosive disruption of the time-tested path to opportunity for America’s next generation comes a new marriage debate: Are evangelicals bad for marriage?
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalreview.com ...
+ 1 million
We’re shooting ourselves in the foot by playing that game. There are plenty of Catholics who are Saved by the Holy Blood of Jesus, same with “Evangelicals”.
Apostasy runs very deep in BOTH camps.
btw...i did read the article.
These numbers are false.
8 out of 10 white Protestants voted for Romney...95% of black Protestants voted for Obama...
**Isn’t it time to drop this Catholic VS Evangelical feud?
Agreed.
I think it’s the volume of articles — not the articles themselves.
From that link:
“”First-time marriages: probably 20 to 25 percent have ended in divorce on average,” Feldhahn revealed. “Now, okay, that’s still too high, but it’s a whole lot better than what people think it is.””
Yep. Neither is hard work, political awareness, community involvement or morality.
We’re in a society that’s more corrosive than anything since the debauchery of Rome. That’s what’s “Bad for Marriage”. Which group is worst and how some self-idenfied as “Whatever” votes is just BS to help that corrosive society divide and conquer the holdouts who try to live their faith instead of going along to get along.
I and othe white Catholics worked really hard to push Bush over the line. I got in a fight of sorts with an old man in the Church parking lot over my Bush t-shirt. :)
**Many of these North East Liberals are just Catholic by affiliation and don’t attend Mass. Or if they do, they’re just the Christmas and Easter types.
A married couple that attends Mass regularly is way more likely to be pro life, pro children, and conservative, even in Massachusetts. I’ve seen it. I have lots of Irish friends named Sullivan and Murphy that have 4 kids and attend Mass regularly. My sons get frustrated some times when they can’t play with their friends because these kids are at CCD.
And believe it or not, there are many families like mine that have 3 or more kids but no religious affiliation at all and still vote conservative in all issues.**
Source for your assertions of lumping all Catholics into this one bucket, please.
The feud is doctrinal, wherefore it has persisted. Internet forums tend to be nasty and brutal. FR is heavy on the Catholic side (from what I can tell). I like hearing the issues aired out. One can learn to filter out the huffing and puffing.
They have the hard work down pat.
And I'd vote for Romney again over Obama any day of the week.
Which ones??
I didn’t lump Catholics into one bucket. I said there are generally 2 types where I’m from. Easter and Christmas Catholics and more devout weekly Mass Catholics. My “source” is over 40 years of living in and around large Irish and Italian Catholic families. IMHO, the families that go to Mass more often are more conservative. Obviously, you are free to disagree.
Article? There was an article connected to that headline?
I thought I read one, but it was early in the morning. Maybe I was dreaming.
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