applegoo said:
you cite information from over 20 years ago? yeah, those studies are old and are bullsh!t, try to find a virgin today, the divorce rate is falling each year, people are waiting until they are older to get married, that mean more sexual partners, that 50% divorce rate stat is bullsh!t.
what do you have to say about this?
The 50 percent statistic is very misleading, if not completely wrong. "The demographics of divorce are routinely reported wrong, calculated wrong or misinterpreted," says Robert Hughes, a former professor in the Department of Human & Family Services, College of Human Environmental Science, University of Missouri-Columbia. Hughes says that for every two marriages that occurred in the 1990s there was one divorce.
"This does not mean the divorce rate is 50 percent [because] the people getting married in a single year are not the same ones getting divorced," he says.
No one is really certain about how the 50 percent number imbedded itself so deeply in popular imagination. "The assumption has been (by those who have not studied it carefully) is that the 50 percent number came from someone noticing that, in the U.S., we have about 2.4 million marriages a year and 1.2 million divorces a year. Hence, 50 percent of married couples divorce," says Scott M. Stanley of the University of Denver.
"No serious demographer ever looked at the approximately 2.4 million marriages a year and the 1.2 million divorces a year to arrive at the 50 percent number.
That is a misunderstanding that began early in the debate about that the divorce rate reality - a misunderstanding that is, unfortunately, widely perpetuated," Stanley says
Thus, the divorce rate is misleading for a number of reasons. Not all states report divorce statistics. The divorce count is based on the total population, not the total married population. Using per capita at today's population distorts the comparison of current marriages because divorces that happen today arose from a smaller population yesterday.
http://www.divorcesource.com/ds/main/u-s-divorce-rates-and-statistics-1037.shtml
http://www.cnn.com/2011/LIVING/05/19/divorce.rates.drop/
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/19/health/19divo.html?_r=0
http://goodmenproject.com/marriage-2/5-reasons-divorce-rate-has-fallen-in-us-and-uk/
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kevin-chern/divorce-rates-declining-i_b_3023122.html
http://www.nbcwashington.com/news/health/Divorce-Rate-Falling-138929519.html
Divorce rate at an all time low
http://www.beachpsych.com/pages/cc130.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...later-life-figure-looks-set-drop-further.html
http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/nation/2007-05-11-divorce-decline_N.htm
http://www.justinlong.org/2014/02/divorce-rate-falling-in-america/
In honor of the recent anniversary celebration for my wife & I (2/4, 19 years),
let me remind us all: the “50% divorce rate” is a myth.
Barna’s studies have found that one-third of all Americans who have been married at least once, have been divorced at least once. The Census Department also has a chart of “ever-married, ever-divorced” at
http://www.census.gov/prod/2011pubs/p70-125.pdf. This goes into much greater detail. Table 6 of this document shows a significant variety in the % ever divorced by age, and the statistics are very interesting indeed. Of those over age 15 (and I presume this includes never marrieds; e.g. this is not ever-married ever-divorced), about 20% of men and 22% of women have been divorced at least once. About half of those are not married now (that is, the rest remarried).
Ever married = 67% of men, 72.8% of women.
Ever married men = 77.6 million
Ever married women = 89.7 million
Ever married, total = 167.3 million
Ever-divorced men = 23.7 million men.
Ever-divorced women = 27.6 million women
Total ever-divorced = 51.3 million
% of US adult population (incl. never-marrieds) ever divorced: 21.4%
% of US ever-married population that has been divorced at least once: 30.6%
(We see Barna and the US Census statistics are in pretty much agreement.)
The divorce rate in America was 4.7 per 1,000 population in 1990, and it has been on the decline–down to 3.9 per 1,000 population in 2009. (This is the rate of divorce; e.g. for every 1,000 people, there were 3 divorces this year, affecting 6 married people).
If you’re not getting married because of the 50% divorce rate, well… time to find another reason. He who finds a wife finds a good thing.