Considering that approximately half of all marriages end in divorce....?
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why stop with the vows? also do these things\n\n1. instead of a pastor have a referee "officiate"\n2. instead of rice throw "dust in the wind"\n3. instead of doves release "trial balloons"\n4. instead of a reception have "something to go"\n\nand finally\n\n5. instead of a honeymoon take "separate vacations"
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What the poll didn't ask was how many had ever been in "committed relationships without being married that have now ended?"\n\nIt's no surprise that divorce rates are highest among this group, because MARRIAGE rates are highest among this group.  They only believe and practice monogamous marital sex and procreation, and the further down the list, the further you get away from that concept of marriage.  The Gallup Poll question is misleading in this respect.\n\nThe poll question also does not specify that the divorces happened AFTER one or both members of the couple were saved, yet an author cited in the same article blatantly makes that statement.   Faulty / incomplete data.
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dont make the mistake\nmarriage causes more divorce
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Quite the conundrum.\n\nThere are such things as survivable marriages.  Divorce really should be a last, last, last resort, especially once kids are involved.\n\nThat said, there can be a point where more harm comes to the kids with a bitter marriage.  Mom and Dad never get along.  One or both drink too much, are never home, abusive, etc.  \n\nKids are fairly resilient.  They recover well so long as both parents remember that through divorce the kids needs are most important.  \n\nI'm in a good (not great) marriage.  I could easily get "lazy" and neglect my marriage based on this.  (Cheating, withdrawing etc) but the kids need a stable family and my life really isn't all that bad.  (After all, I CHOSE my wife and CHOSE to have kids).  \n\nDivorce is NEVER good when kids are involved.  It is a question of which is the worse of two evils:  A less than good marriage with the family working to hold together or a impulsive divorce that destroys kids faith in adults, parents and family.
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I think I saw the article you speak of and NO there is no truth to the story without skewing the numbers.\nLike taking the divorce rate as a percentage of total population and not of total marriages.\nWhich supports the answer given by Kala that there are more folks living together out of wedlock in liberal states than in conservative states.\n\nI found some stats on one of the CENSUS related sites
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First it is not many it is only 4!!\nAllah allowed us to marry 4 wives but also we are warned to be very carefuk about this issue and only take this step if there is no hope at all in this wife whatever the fault might be and since the worst legal thing to do is divorce it is taken as the last option at all and it's better not to consider it\nAs the Islam tells us we must be able to marry and carry all the burdons but also Islam warned us that we will never be fair to the wives whatever we do but we must try our best
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I could be that 69% of black families are born out of wedlock. 62% of Black families (up from 23% in 1967) are now headed by single women.
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Divorce rate in Australia in around 40%. Meaning, about 40 percent of marriages can be expected to end in divorce. Adding a small fraction for marriage breakdowns which are never formalised by divorce,it is estimated that about 43 per cent of marriages end in separation within 30 years of the marriage. \nDivorce rate in Australia stands at around 3 divorces per 1000 marriages. Census records show that more than 55,000 divorces were granted in 2001. During the same period around 103,000 marriages were registered. \n\n\n\nPeople divorce for many reasons but i do believe that a huge contribution to divorce is financial strain on marriages, trying to pay your mortgage and raise kids on minimum wages... it takes its toll.
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31%\n\nhttp://www.unmarried.org/pressreleases/marriagerelease.html
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we do have the highest divorce rate. black couples have the rate with 67% of marriage end in divorce
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I don't think that marriage will be so important as it is nowadays, and even nowadays the importance has dwindled down. Less people are eager to get married, and less women want to have children. So, in the next 20-25 years I think that the birth rate will have significantly gone down, and so will the marriage rate. Maybe more dads will be staying home and taking care of the kids, while moms will be the ones bringing home the bread.
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I have been married for 8 months, after being toghether for 4 years. The relationship went worst and worst from the 4-th day of marriage, and now we are waiting for the year to pass, so we could divorce... 0.001% satisfaction... :(
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People just don't take marriage as seriously as they used to.  People are just more selfish now, I guess.
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I have had lots of friends from India and Pakistan who are involved with arranged marriages, even some who were hesitant and scared to enter in to one.. they are all happily married. I am close with them and I see thier joy and thier relief at being married to someone who shares their same religious beliefs, culture and whose family is already bonded with their own.. Most of the "love" marriages I've seen end in divorce, I, myself am about to divorce the man I've been married to for  6 years.  We dated for 7 years, then married, then all of his bad habits worsened, as did mine, we grew apart and now I've left him.. A "love" marriage was a mistake for me. I'm American, white and "arranged marriage" was not one of my options, I wish it had been. I'm now a converted Muslim, and I hope one day I can have an arranged marriage. God Bless you :D
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you are right; from the divorce rate you mentioned above. it use to be HALF of all marriages end up in divorce, now its predicted MORE than half will end up in divorce (statisticly) a human being by nature is a mamal. a mamal or an animal wrather is a being that is made to procreate (male; spread its seed) though we are smarter than an animal yet; we still have those urges. why cant we stop the way we are if were so smart? well were built this way. the same reason we eat meat, when we know that an animal that has done no wrong, is slaughtered. yet we love the taste of meat. we also love the taste of sin. yea as you figured, most divorces, are caused by infidelity.
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Yes. Otherwise, couples would go their seperate ways when things got hard, instead of making it work. Marriage is a rational decision you make to be with 1 person, even if it gets hard. Think about a world full of broken homes, with only one parent. That would be reality without marriage.
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They almost always end in divorce if they ever do get married/ bitter breakups.\nHate, unfaithfulness, etc...\n\nI have never seen one last more than a few years. It is quite sad really.  God's design is ALWAYS the best.