Stanek weekend vid: Marriages way more successful than thought
by Hans Johnson
Do half of all marriages really end in divorce? It’s been quite a contentious argument. Perhaps one of the most prominent voices calling this a pernicious urban myth is columnist Michael Medved, who has long said a careful look at the statistics belie the gloomy impression most have.
Social researcher Shaunti Feldhahn agrees in the new book, The Good News About Marriage, written after eight years of research. “There is no such thing as a 50 percent divorce rate. It’s never been close,” she told TheBlaze. “Right now … 72 percent of people are still married to their first spouse — that’s Census Bureau data.”
And that’s not even taking into account how many of the remaining are widowed, and never divorced. More good news: The divorce rate between active church attendees is 27-50% lower than non-church goers.
Here is a report from CBN News:
[youtube]http://youtu.be/All9FsEJDm4[/youtube]
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Jill Stanek is a nurse turned speaker, columnist and blogger, a national figure in the effort to protect both preborn and postborn innocent human life.
It’s a math thing.
Many of those 72% of existing first marriages will become first divorces.
And a bunch of second marriages will end in divorce, as well — adding to the portion of total “marriages that end in divorce.”
It is reasonable that 72% of couples are enjoying their first marriage in a climate where half of all marriages end in divorce.
Our current problem, worse than divorce, is that many young couples are ignoring marriage altogether. So many couple break-ups are not recorded, and often there are children involved.
The number of families with children and an untold number of men cycling through there lives is astounding.
I loved being married to my first husband and he died. Im on my second marriage and now I love being married again.
I really wonder how many second time around are the charm. I married a divorcee. She was married only once before. I was nevered married. She died of ill health. I am widowed. Reading biographies and genealogy I found a lot of second marriages that are stable and last for decades. It seems as though those who marry again and again run in families and if one is not of those families the chances of landing up with a long stable marriage are really, really very good.