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    Red States Higher in Divorce Than Blue States

    Maine, Alaska, Oklahoma, Kentucky and Nevada, ranked at the top for divorces, while Utah, Wyoming and Arkansas – which had the highest marriage rates – were also higher than average in marital breakups. New Jersey, Connecticut, Massachusetts and New York ranked among the lowest in divorces.

    North Dakota ranked among the top states in marriages while posting lower than average divorce rates.

    The Census Bureau report attributed the lower rates of divorce in the Northeast in part to delayed marriage in those places, which decreased the likelihood of marital discord down the road.

    "Surprisingly, the South and West, which we think of as more socially conservative, have higher rates of divorce than does the supposedly liberal East," said Andrew Cherlin, a professor of sociology and public policy at Johns Hopkins University. "The reason is that young adults in the South and West tend to have less education and marry earlier, both of which lead to a higher risk of divorce."

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/0..._n_935938.html

    I expected that the [family value] states have the highest divorce rates. More hypocrisy from the right.
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    Re: Red States Higher in Divorce Than Blue States

    Also, of the four states with the lowest divorce rates, three allow gay marriage. So maybe the gays aren't destroying the traditional family after all?
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    Re: Red States Higher in Divorce Than Blue States

    No one wants to defend marriage?
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    Re: Red States Higher in Divorce Than Blue States

    after being married for 41 years I have come to the conclusion that divorce is mostly caused by marriage
    The eastern world, it is exploding, violence flaring bullets loading. you are old enough to kill , but not for voting, this whole crazy world is just to frustrating, and you tell me over and over and over again my friend, you don't believe we are on the EVE of DESTRUCTION.


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    Re: Red States Higher in Divorce Than Blue States

    The first-of-its-kind analysis by the Census Bureau, released Thursday, also finds that people are waiting longer before marrying for the first time. In particular, the percentage of women who wed as teenagers has dropped precipitously since 1970, while many men are postponing marriage past their college-age years.

    A first of it's kind Analysis.....
    By region, the South and West had the most marriages, with rates of roughly 19 per 1,000. But they also led in divorces, each at about 10 per 1,000.

    As a whole, marriages are now at a record low, with just 52 percent of adults 18 and over saying they were joined in wedlock, compared with 57 percent in 2000, according to census data released last September. The never-married included 46.3 percent of young adults 25-34 – the first time the share of never-married young adults exceeded those who were married, 44.9 percent, with the rest being divorced or widowed.

    Marriages have been declining for years due to rising divorce, more unmarried couples living together and increased job prospects for women. But analysts say younger people also may now be increasingly choosing to delay marriage as they struggle to find work and resist making long-term commitments in the recent recession.

    The census analysis is based on 2009 data from the American Community Survey, which sampled 3 million households. It is the first to describe detailed information on marriages and divorces from this survey after the National Center for Health Statistics stopped collecting such data in 1996.

    Seems The Census Bureau is just one study......as the population would be greater in the North. it is not surprising that Marriages would drop off around Urban Cities. Which was not taken seriously in this report. For I am sure if it was broken down by urban and rural settings then we would have some different numbers.

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    Also, of the four states with the lowest divorce rates, three allow gay marriage. So maybe the gays aren't destroying the traditional family after all?

    Try telling that to the kid that has to run around telling all that he has 3 mommies.....or to the kid that knows it takes a man and a woman to make a baby!
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    Re: Red States Higher in Divorce Than Blue States

    What no Takers on One Report about such..... >
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    Re: Red States Higher in Divorce Than Blue States

    The kid that has three mommies? What are you talking about? Also maybe you've noticed that in large families children bear some of the responsibility of child rearing.

    As such, it is better for the children to have more people loving them and taking care of them than not.

    Why would you want to deprive a child of love?

    News flash for you: many children in this country are growing up with only one parent.

    Two moms or two dads who love that kid are worth a lot more than backwards thinking about how an untraditional environment is going to cause them some harm.
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    Re: Red States Higher in Divorce Than Blue States

    Quote Originally Posted by Pendragon View Post
    The kid that has three mommies? What are you talking about? Also maybe you've noticed that in large families children bear some of the responsibility of child rearing.

    As such, it is better for the children to have more people loving them and taking care of them than not.

    Why would you want to deprive a child of love?

    News flash for you: many children in this country are growing up with only one parent.

    Two moms or two dads who love that kid are worth a lot more than backwards thinking about how an untraditional environment is going to cause them some harm.
    Newsflash.....I grew-up with one parent and was put out on the streets. Grew up on the streets so save the speech on love. Yeah it was called tuff love. Nothing tradional about it.

    3 mommies..... yeah,what don't you get about two gay women that divorce, then one marries again. Also you shied away from the piece on kids that know it takes a man and a woman to create another human.....or baby in this case.
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    Re: Red States Higher in Divorce Than Blue States

    So a homosexual couple getting divorced and remarried is not OK, but if heterosexuals do that it is fine?

    How hypocritical. :

    The point is a child needs two parents who love him or her.

    Also, divorce is hard on any child. It doesn't matter if the parents are heterosexual or homosexual.

    Even though you think you turned out OK, don't you think it would have been easier with two parents?

    Don't you think a lot of kids today would have it better with two parents?

    I hear the Republicans complaining about all the welfare moms but they are deliberately preventing families from being formed.

    Hypocrisy at its finest.
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    Re: Red States Higher in Divorce Than Blue States

    Hey, MMC doesn't think he turned out ok, he KNOWS he turned out ok! > :-*

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