U.S. Divorce Rate Lowest Since 1970

Tyrael · #1 6th-June-2007

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U.S. Divorce Rate Lowest Since 1970

May 10 02:43 PM US/Eastern
By DAVID CRARY
AP National Writer

NEW YORK (AP) - By the numbers, divorce just isn't what it used to be.

Despite the common notion that America remains plagued by a divorce epidemic, the national per capita divorce rate has declined steadily since its peak in 1981 and is now at its lowest level since 1970.

Yet Americans aren't necessarily making better choices about their long-term relationships. Even those who study marriage and work to make it more successful can't decide whether the trend is grounds for celebration or cynicism.

Some experts say relationships are as unstable as ever—and divorces are down primarily because more couples live together without marrying. Other researchers have documented what they call "the divorce divide," contending that divorce rates are indeed falling substantively among college-educated couples but not among less- affluent, less-educated couples.

"Families with two earners with good jobs have seen an improvement in their standard of living, which leads to less tension at home and lower probability of divorce," said Andrew Cherlin, a professor of public policy at Johns Hopkins University.

America's divorce rate began climbing in the late 1960s and skyrocketed during the '70s and early '80s, as virtually every state adopted no-fault divorce laws. The rate peaked at 5.3 divorces per 1,000 people in 1981.
But since then it's dropped by one-third, to 3.6. That's the lowest rate since 1970.

What's fueling that decline? According to 20 scholars, marriage- promotion experts and divorce lawyers consulted by The Associated Press, a combination of things.

The number of couples who live together without marrying has increased tenfold since 1960; the marriage rate has dropped by nearly 30 percent in past 25 years; and Americans are waiting about five years longer to marry than they did in 1970.

Adding such factors together, Patrick Fagan of the conservative Heritage Foundation sees a bad situation.

"Cohabitation is very fragile, and when unmarried parents split, for the child it might as well be a divorce," Fagan said. "Among those who are marrying there's increased stability, but overall the children of the nation are getting a rawer and rawer deal from their parents."

You can read the rest here Link.

This article mentions NOTHING about how bad the marriage/divorce deal has become for men in western countries such as the USA. It's due to (radical) feminists who have corrupted marriage, because they want to destroy the nuclear family and remove fathers from families. That is the real cause of dwindling marriage rates.

**chevalier** · #2 7th-June-2007

I agree the cohabitation situation isn't by a woman's choice but by a man's. Of course less men are choosing marriage because they know that they will lose everything in divorce. And when you hear that half of all marriages end in divorce the only thing to make a man marry is religious obligation possibly.

Tyrael · #3 8th-June-2007

Here are two good comments from a other forum:

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That statistic is an illusion to the idea that things are getting better, they're not

1. Men are just not marrying so theres less marriages
2. More men are marrying FW
3. More men are just NOT GETTING DIVORCED because they're SCARED OF LOSING EVERYTHING. Theyre still miserable but if it's a decision of living a lie but still have all the STUFF you own to play with like your motorcycle or whatever, To living in an apartment with 50% or more of everythign you own GONE, child support, an living in poverty till you die while your wife runs off an fucks 3rd world country men........women are more sexpats than men LOL

So it's BS, marriage still sucks, don't think because the divorce rate is low that things are better, it's just as bad as ever

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Another carefully manipulated statistic by the feminazis.

How in the fucked up sense of things can you use a statistic like this but compare it to number of people and not married people?

Only feminists would twist things like this.

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