[tbw2]

The media repeats the lie that the divorce rate is 50%, causing many to refuse to get married in the first place. Where did this misconception come from, and what is the real state of marriage?

[Jack Hydrazine]

http://www.afajournal.org/recent-issues/2015/january/the-real-threat-to-marriage/

She has finally discovered the divorce rate in America is nowhere close to 50%. And it never has been. As a matter of fact, the rate has been steadily declining since 1980. In reality, 71% of women are still married to their first spouse. And widowhood reduces the remaining 29%, bringing us to an approximate 25% divorce rate for first marriages.

Additionally, Feldhahn told AFA Journal, the rate of divorce is not the same among Christians. Previously reported numbers were based solely on belief systems (stated religion) and not whether those beliefs were actually being practiced in their lives. With the help of Barna Group’s comprehensive research from 2008, Feldhahn and her staff were able to incorporate participants’ answers about church attendance. The results revealed a 27% decrease in the number of divorces among those who had been to church in the last seven days.

Landmark findings by the National Survey of Families and Households between 1987 and 1994 revealed a 50% lesser occasion of divorce among those who share the same faith and attend church. A Family Life Family Needs Survey among more than 50 churches in 2012-2013 found that only 22% of those ever married had been divorced. Numbers vary, but no matter which way you cut it, divorce in the church is lower. And divorce overall is much lower than the numbers pushed by secular media and others.

[SamAdams76]

I think the "not getting married in the first place" is the main reason for the decline. Since it has become socially acceptable to shack up, we now have a good number of people out there bouncing from live-in relationship to live-in relationship, without the attendant divorces and the nasty alimony and child custody battles that go with them.

Many people getting married typically have already co-habitated with each other for a period of time and have determined that they are a good fit for each other long-term.

[goldstategop]

I’m not surprised the divorce rate among religious people are low.

If you’re a happy person so is your spouse and happier people tend to stay together for the long haul.

To stay married ain’t rocket science.

[St_Thomas_Aquinas]

Among non-contracepting couples, the divorce rate is under 5%.

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[sagar]

You can’t have a divorce if you don’t get married. Sum up divorce rate + families with children born out of wedlock and you will get far higher than 50% screwed up families. No amount of statistics manipulation is going to change that.

[Figment]

It is usually expressed as “half of all marriages end in divorce” That is probably true. The divorce rate for first marriages is not %50 though. Serial divorcers skew the stats. I’m sure the rates dropped after the deaths of Elizabeth Taylor and Mickey Rooney

[familyop]

The default process might be the answer to the misogamists’ divorce/cohabitation regime. Fewer have been getting married.