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Study Shows US Bible Belt Has Highest Rate of Family Break-Ups; Is it About Faith or Race?
Christian Post ^ | 02/14/2014 | BY TYLER O'NEIL

Posted on 02/14/2014 7:58:05 PM PST by SeekAndFind

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To: married21

Yes, but as noted in another post, the divorced and never
marrieds are treated the same in the study,
and you don’t get counted if you don’t
have children....


21 posted on 02/14/2014 9:03:22 PM PST by WKTimpco
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To: SeekAndFind

Totally fallacious. Correlation is not causation.


22 posted on 02/14/2014 9:28:10 PM PST by bigbob (The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. Abraham Lincoln)
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To: SeekAndFind

Interesting.

I wonder if this is because people don’t look at marriage as a Sacrament, a holy covenant.


23 posted on 02/14/2014 9:32:58 PM PST by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: Salvation
I wonder if this is because people don’t look at marriage as a Sacrament, a holy covenant.

I believe this has much to do with it. When people realize they made a promise to God in front of witnesses it helps to put things in perspective. They need to be reminded of this fact.

24 posted on 02/14/2014 9:55:33 PM PST by verga
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To: SeekAndFind

“The black family is just in meltdown crisis on family and on marriage,” the researcher argued, “and that’s what locking them into poverty.”

True picture of the South with its many areas of black population. A real crisis for family values.


25 posted on 02/14/2014 10:06:58 PM PST by Cedar
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To: SeekAndFind

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26 posted on 02/14/2014 10:29:39 PM PST by GOP Poet
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To: freedom462
Unfortunately, it clearly cannot be entirely blamed on the minority communities in the Bible belt. There has to be other factors at play here.

How about money? I always feel there is a secret code of moral conservatism among the wealthy.

27 posted on 02/14/2014 10:30:58 PM PST by dr_lew
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To: SeekAndFind
Liberals are more likely to live together and not get married verses conservatives therefore liberals could easily have a lower rate of divorce simply because there are fewer of them to get divorced.
28 posted on 02/14/2014 10:42:19 PM PST by DB
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To: SeekAndFind

It’d be interesting to see a map of, essentially, is the father (or a stepfather of over 5 years marriage to the mother) still married to the mother, or at least regularly living with the family.


29 posted on 02/14/2014 11:01:51 PM PST by Paul R. (We are in a break in an Ice Age. A brief break at that...)
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To: lightman

SF area has most intact families? What a joke. Methodology must be dicey


30 posted on 02/14/2014 11:32:03 PM PST by Nifster
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To: Nifster

Probably the “study” is lie from the start


31 posted on 02/14/2014 11:36:03 PM PST by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans!)
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To: freedom462

Do not know where you live but food in the south is most definitely not what you said. We have fried food but not excessively so. The stereotypes about the south are driven by liberal hatred


32 posted on 02/14/2014 11:36:10 PM PST by Nifster
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Then what explains the South having obesity rates so far above average? And please don’t try to say it’s only because of the racial minorities. You’re not gonna do anything to help the South’s reputation by going down that road.


33 posted on 02/14/2014 11:39:07 PM PST by freedom462
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To: freedom462

I tend to think the amount of sugary drinks is the leading cause....that and the amount of packaged foods some people eat.


34 posted on 02/14/2014 11:50:43 PM PST by Nifster
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To: freedom462

Blacks are not as much of a minority in the south as they are in the country as a whole. Blacks make up 37% of MS population but only 13% of US population according to the US Census Bureau. 37% of a population could skew a result more that 13% could. Just sayin’.


35 posted on 02/15/2014 12:44:39 AM PST by jospehm20
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To: SeekAndFind

Because people in Liberal areas don’t get married as often...in other words, there are no marriages to break up.


36 posted on 02/15/2014 4:00:32 AM PST by Politicalkiddo (Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crused it. -M. Twain)
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Study Shows US Bible Belt Has Highest Rate of Family Break-Ups; Is it About Faith or Race?

So build a wall and stop the Northern liberals from infecting the South.

37 posted on 02/15/2014 6:11:06 AM PST by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: elpadre

They should try to reestablish the black family. Blacks however have never embrassed family like whites. It’s their culture.


38 posted on 02/15/2014 6:18:14 AM PST by Carry me back
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To: elpadre
72% of black babies are born to single women.

In New York City in 1925, 85% of kin-related black households had two parents.[8] When Moynihan warned in his 1965 report on the coming destruction of the black family, however, the out-of-wedlock birthrate had increased to 25% among blacks.[7] This figure continued to rise over time and in 1991, 68% of black children were born outside of marriage.[9] U.S. Census data from 2010 reveal that more African American families consisted of single-parent mothers than married homes with both parents.[10] Most recently, in 2011 it was reported that 72% of black babies were born to unwed mothers.[6]

But all the political energy is spent trying to make the white man confess to being raciest and demanding reparations of one kind or another.

You must be racist. Confess it.

39 posted on 02/15/2014 7:11:57 AM PST by daniel1212 (Come to the Lord Jesus as a contrite damned+destitute sinner, trust Him to save you, then live 4 Him)
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To: daniel1212

I’m not sure how to define the word racist.


40 posted on 02/15/2014 8:47:40 AM PST by elpadre (AfganistaMr Obama said the goal was to "disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-hereQaeda" and its allies.)
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