How much is the divorce rate in america?
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The Associated Press, using data supplied by the US Census Bureau, found that the highest divorce rates are to be found in the Bible Belt. The AP report stated that "the divorce rates in these conservative states are roughly 50 percent above the national average of 4.2 per thousand people." The 10 Southern states with some of the highest divorce rates were Alabama, Arkansas, Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, and Texas. By comparison nine states in the Northeast were among those with the lowest divorce rates: Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and Vermont.\n\nHow to explain these differences? The following factors provide a partial answer:\n\n More couples in the South enter their first marriage at a younger age.\n\n Average household incomes are lower in the South.\n\n Southern states have a lower percentage of Roman Catholics, "a denomination that does not recognize divorce." Barna's study showed that 21 percent of Catholics had been divorced, compared with 29 percent of Baptists.\n\n Education. Massachusetts has about the highest rate of education in the country, with 85 percent completing high school. For Texas the rate is 76 percent. One third of Massachusetts residents have completed college, compared with 23 percent of Texans, and the other Northeast states are right behind Massachusetts.\n\nThe liberals from Massachusetts have long prided themselves on their emphasis on education, and it has paid off: People who stay in school longer get married at a later age, when they are more mature, are more likely to secure a better job, and job income increases with each level of formal education. As a result, Massachusetts also leads in per capita and family income while births by teenagers, as a percent of total births, was 7.4 for Massachusetts and 16.1 for Texas.\n\nThe Northeast corridor, with Massachusetts as the hub, does have one of the highest levels of Catholics per state total. And it is also the case that these are among the states most strongly supportive of the Catholic Church's teaching on social justice issues such as minimum and living wages and universal healthcare.\n\nFor all the Bible Belt talk about family values, it is the people from Kerry's home state, along with their neighbors in the Northeast corridor, who live these values. Indeed, it is the "blue" states, led led by Massachusetts and Connecticut, that have been willing to invest more money over time to foster the reality of what it means to leave no children behind. And they have been among the nation's leaders in promoting a living wage as their goal in public employment. The money they have invested in their future is known more popularly as taxes; these so-called liberal people see that money is their investment to help insure a compassionate, humane society. Family values are much more likely to be found in the states mistakenly called out-of-the-mainstream liberal. By their behavior you can know them as the true conservatives. They are showing how to conserve family life through the way they live their family values. William V. D'Antonio is professor emeritus at University of Connecticut and a visiting research professor at Catholic University in Washington, D.C. \n\n\n\nAn Associated Press article cont'd. a national average divorce rate of 4.2 per thousand. The highest divorce rates, excluding Nevada’s drive-thru divorces, are in Tennessee 6.4, Arkansas 6.1, Oklahoma 6.0 and Alabama 6.0, where Christian fundamentalism dominates society and culture. \n[Census Bureau and National Center for Health Statistics data.]\nThe Bible belt, the region of strongest conservative Christianity, the region where government does most to force religion on everyone, can’t sustain Christian marriages.
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Nothing is free, but you can get a divorce cheap. try one of those legal places, like we the people etc.
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I divorced through an on line service.  I recommend it only if you and your ex can negotiate a settlement amicably.  If there is any disagreement on the division of assets or parenting and custody plans then it is better to use a mediation service or lawyers.  We were able to work it all out and it did not take much time and we did not have to go to court.  The cost as I recall was about $400.  My state is a no fault state.  I don't know about yours.
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Well, look around you.  Nothing would be much different.\n\nThe number of single parent homes that exist now have nothing to do with the wedding or the divorce.  It all has to do with the people and how they react to each other in conflict and in calm times.\n\nStaying together becuase of the children wouldnt change at all, married or living together.\n\nI suppose lawyers would have less to do, or have to go into another avenue of Law.\n\nBut, we are not better off without marriage, not sure about the actual wedding ceremony, aside from the money so many people make off of it.\n\nMarriage, is a commitment to each other, not a piece of paper.  The paper is man made and just shows the legal contract entered into.  A true marriage vow is forever and is made with GOD as your true witness..  When the marriage vow is done with this as its true goal, you will be better off even in really hard times ( those times when you love your spouse for better and for worse, and it seems like its the worse part all the time)\n\nI know there are people on here that will quote that the Christian divorce rate is almost equal to the non Christain divorce rate, but no one has taken into account what I would call the true Christain divorce rate.  That would be of Christains that actually attend Church and read their bible regularly, not just on holidays or on sundays when there is no conflict with other things they may want to do.\nThat is a statistic that I would prefer to see.
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that depends on the state you are in.  Some states have do-it-yourself divorces that all you have to do is pay the filing fees.  Other have legal aids that help you fill out the paper work and file it, again just paying the fees.  It depends on the state you live in but the best place to find out and start with is your local legal aid.
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Never..... Kids will learn to accept and understand divorce at any age, it just takes longer when they are under age 6.  If the marriage is that bad, your kids will see it and staying together for their sake will not help them at all.  It will only warp their view of what a relationship is to be when they are older.
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Screw marriages . . . because straight people don't hold marriage and sacred and forever binding.\n\n Look at the divorce rate in the US . . . between 50-75% depending on age.  What a joke . . . marriage.\n\nWhat they are . . . are civil unions . . . or personal business that can get dissolved within a whim . . . \n\nIf you are religious . . . call it a marriage . . . get married in a church . . . and if you get divorced for any grounds other that adultery . . . you are going to hell.\n\nIf you are not religious . . . have it done by a judge and call it a civil union . . . and there . . . everyone is happy. . . . okay . . . \n\nNow stop beating this dead horse.
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save yourself and your life...you will end up in divorce...statistics are against you!!!
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I really don't have an answer to your question but am answering because I see the regular morons are in here too...\n\n"Divorce cases are high in the world..."\n\nThe Western world does not constitute the world so let us not be xenophobic.  Asian culture as well as African continent has the lowest divorce rates and its NOT because the woman does not have the guts to stand up to her husband.  Its because they are happy together.\n\nAs sister Muslimah said, once you've found that special person, you have to work at making it succeed.  It won't work all by itself.
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divorce and break up!!
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first nd4spd,you're right it's not uk answers!take it you're american.why don't you lot stop asking stupid questions about american things that don't concern us??\nanyhoo-you can have a d.i.y divorce for around £60.go to your local court&ask for a form,fill it out,give it back to the court.they will then sent the papers to your ex.when your ex sends them back to the court it takes about 6 weeks then you are divorced.good luck\nhope you realise i wasn't talking about you in the first bit of my answer?it's just that eedjit up the page abit kinda annoyed me.i thought a was on the world wide web,not one just for that losers country!\nyou can trust my advice though.going through the process myself!
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Life of the people involved will be devastated and will never be the same ever again.  In divorce there are no winners, all are losers, especially the children.  So, think a billion times before considering a divorce.  Everybody should be prepared and understand what's happening.
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costs, alimony, child support . . . etc.
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If you are asking about marrying for love versus an arranged marriage.....the divorce rate in the US is 50% and I think its much less in S.E. Asia (is that where you are from?)  However if you feel like you were forced into a situation that cannot be good either.  I think in India (S.E. Asia) the reason arranged marriages work so well is because the people are more willing to compromise probably because they don't really have a choice.
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My dad (my parents have been married for 57 years) says that divorce is not an escape from your problems, just a new set of problems. That's why second and third marriages have a higher divorce rate then first marriages. Divorce is sometimes the only way to address certain relationship issues, but it needs to be as a last resort. Too often, people give up without investing any real effort.
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Don't know exactly what the equivalent U.S. value is to what you are asking.  But, I am a single mom, that has two children and I make $46,000 annually.  I only recieve $129 a month for child support.  I started a business after my divorce.
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http://www.divorcereform.org/rates.html