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What do you make of this Divorce rate study?
Barna released this 10 years ago:
Barna released the results of their poll about divorce on 1999-DEC-21. 1 They had interviewed 3,854 adults from the 48 contiguous states. The margin of error is ±2 percentage points. The survey found:
11% of the adult population is currently divorced.
25% of adults have had at least one divorce during their lifetime.
Divorce rates among conservative Christians were significantly higher than for other faith groups, and much higher than Atheists and Agnostics experience.
Barna report: Variation in divorce rates among Christian faith groups:
Denomination (in order of decreasing divorce rate)
% who have been divorced
Non-denominational ** 34%
Baptists 29%
Mainline Protestants 25%
Mormons 24%
Catholics 21%
Lutherans 21%
** Barna uses the term "non-denominational" to refer to Evangelical Christian congregations that are not affiliated with a specific denomination. The vast majority are fundamentalist in their theological beliefs
(I agree the study is 10 years old, however, more recent smaller studies show no change in this rate)
Edit: Studies are always based on a slice of society that demographically represents society on the whole.
And I am unable to find anything done on annulments.
Barna is extremely well accepted.
5 Answers
- 1 decade agoFavorite Answer
Interesting question / topic of discussion.
I don’t think the answers are in the reasons for divorce, but rather the importance the denomination places on marriage. In denominations where members feel more pressure to find a mate and marry – you see higher divorce rates than denominations that don’t make their single parishioners feel like social pariahs.
Good question. I’m looking forward to reading the other responses.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
Frankly, it states the obvious: If people are unhappy in a relationship they often choose to end it legally rather than either run away or murder their spouse.
This seems evident in everyday life around us.
- 1 decade ago
I watch what they do in the bedroom, fundamentalist husbands and wives are afraid to "express" themselves in the bedroom the way others do. I usually get bored with them and my spirit leaves them, the way you make love is deeply spiritual and they don't realize this so their marriages fall apart.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
I'd be interested to know the numbers after "annulments" were included.
A link would help too.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
Am I missing something, or are these statistics 10 years old and based on 4000 subjects?