WHICH ETHNIC GROUPS IN THE USA HAVE THE LOWEST & HIGHEST DIVORCE RATES?

Present day "partnerships" do not conform to the traditional institution of marriage in the first place.

So, the statistics of - marriages Vs Live-in relationships Vs Single Parents is complex enough. Besides, rates of divorce can only be calculated as a percentage of legally valid marriages.

Since traditional cultures have a higher rate of traditional marriages, their divorce rates can show the rate of failure of MARRIAGES. But unorthodox cultures that stress a relationship more than a formal wedding, may have a greater number of failed relationships but it could never be statistically established.

I hope you get what I'm saying.

edit: I don't know why some people try to convince themselves and others that cultures where marriages last lifelong are necessarily unhappy marriages. Arranged vs non-arranged notwithstanding, a marriage is a marriage. Compatibility of backrounds can certainly serve to strengthen a bond, and compromise is often advocated for both - bride and groom. Yet it is not as if divorces do not occur at all in Indian cultures. But I do agree, it is not much encouraged.

Survival post divorce is just as much an issue as it would be in any other ethnicity..no less, no more.

All the "hassles" and checks that are carried out BEFORE the marriage, naturally mean fewer reasons to break up AFTER.

A failed marriage definitely ends in a divorce, even in traditional cultures. So attributing a lower divorce rate to a greater number of unhappy marriages is incorrect and unfair.

You can start by examining marriage customs in the cultures you listed. For example: In our culture ones choice of mate is based on ones own individual values. Someone from a traditional Indian or Oriental culture is more likely to choose a mate that the family approves and therefor is provided with a greater network of support. Also, the stigma of divorce seems to be stronger in those cultures. I have no mathematical statistics; just my two cents.

Statistics may well show a higher divorce rate among Blacks and Whites, but that doesn't mean they're bad spouses. So don't let your acquaintances make too much soup from that oyster.

I wouldn't begin to know where to find the truth on this - you can't trust corporations, universities or the govt.

Before the 1960's all groups had low divorce rates so I tend to think it is due more to the marxist destruction of the family than ethnicity. I did hear a statistic yesterday that black single mother households went from 20% to 80%.

Asian have the lowest Divorce Rates / Black have the Highest Divorce Rates

This is honestly a difficult topic (in my opinion) to prove as being fact or fiction. Based on some factors that are not taken into consideration when dealing with the statically data used to formulate these numbers of divorce in either the black/white community vs. other racial groups.

For starters, divorce is something that just is not advocated in such Asian and Indian cultures. A lot of their marriages are arranged based on social class, occupation and even family ties and bloodlines. A young woman’s future husband in many cases is picked for her before she even enters the world. These groups hold true to traditional beliefs that a marriage is sacred and shall not be broken (regardless of circumstances). And in many cases the women are forced to depend on the husbands for financial support of her and her children; so they don’t have the means to leave their husbands (i.e. divorce) and support themselves.

Whereas with black and white women, (in some cases) we really don’t give a d@m LOL. If the dude we married wants to stay married, fine; if he doesn’t, that’s fine too. We were fine before we met him, so we’ll be fine when he’s gone. We don’t have to depend on our husbands to care of us and our children so for us, survival isn’t one of the main reasons for many us to stay married. We’re not bound by law to any one family before birth and we’re pretty much free to do as we please. Our customs and traditions aren’t the same as say a Chinese or Indian woman. So we’re not going to view marriage in the same light.

I’m sorry, I wish I could be of more help, but the only thing I can say is that marriage is no longer something that stressed heavily in the lives of American women (much less having kids). So our views of marriage (and the manner in which we handle marriage) will not be the same as a woman from either of these native countries mentioned.