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Mapping US Divorce Rates

By Filings on Mon, 08/26/24
Society & Culture
Divorce
Marriage
American Culture
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“Couples who practice the Christian faith seriously and the disciplines and values it teaches face a substantially decreased life-time risk of divorce, some by as much as 30 to 50% reduced risk relative to the general population.” - Daily Citizen

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Bert Perry

NewI'm reminded...

Mon, 08/26/24

...of a study from Arkansas that found that divorce rates were sky high there, but when I processed the data to be (approximately) in proportion to the number of adults who were actually married, I found that they were 35% lower than the control--in this case the divorce rate in New England and the Northeast, if I remember correctly. So if you factor in the relative preponderance of evangelicalism in both places, you get to a similar place as does this report.

Aspiring to be a stick in the mud.

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