Here is an article about Prof. Doug Allen’s talk at the BYU Symposium. Divorce is important to study, because no one fully anticipated how much changing divorce rules would change many other areas of society. I posted on this lecture, from the conference itself. see here.
Allen said, it’s safe to say between 10 percent and 20 percent of marriages ended as a direct result of no-fault divorce laws. Read more…
Lots of good stats in here.
by Carolyn Moynihan
When will young adults get the message that living together does not increase their chances of a lasting marriage? New analysis of US national data shows that, on average, cohabitation actually decreases by 6 percentage points the likelihood of marriage lasting 10 years or more. Read more…
Dr. Doug Allen is lecturing on “No-Fault Divorce: Unexpected Consequences and Long-Term Prospects.”
No-fault caused an increase in divorce by 10% to 20%, depending on the study, (contra Nancy Cott in the Prop 8 trial.)
More women enter the workplace and work longer than they otherwise would, due to no-fault. In states that are more no-fault, women work more in the work force, to self-insure against the probability of divorce. They still work more at home, and men work less in the home. Read more…
Marriages face many challenges. One of the most common challenges is financial.
But if you believe in lifelong married love, then, for heaven’s sakes, DON’T LISTEN TO SUZE ORMAN. Here’s what Dr. Helen Smith had to say:
Well, Suze Orman is back at it again, playing the henpecking man-hater who tells women to get divorced Read more…
Interestingly, a study shows that those who marry between the ages of 20-24 have the lowest divorce rate. It was also suggested that “little or nothing is likely to be gained by deliberately delaying marriage beyond the mid twenties.”
David Lapp
Marriages of people in their early to mid-20s are not nearly as risky as you think.
When my very smart and relatively young girlfriend (she was then 20) first told her father she was thinking of marrying me, he refused to even hear of it. “How much college debt does he have?” he demanded. “What’s the rush? Why not wait until your career and finances are established? How do you know he’s the one?” Read more…
Here is a fantastically put together document on all of the far-reaching negative effects of pornography. I knew the stuff was bad, but, wow.
(This article originally appeared at FamilyResearchCouncil.org.)
by Patrick F. Fagan, Ph.D. and Ruth Institute Academic Advisory Board Member
Pornography is a visual representation of sexuality which distorts an individual’s concept of the nature of conjugal relations. This, in turn, alters both sexual attitudes and behavior. It is a major threat to marriage, to family, to children and to individual happiness. In undermining marriage it is one of the factors in undermining social stability. Read more…
More from Douglas Farrow’s Touchstone article. BTW, the book he references, A Nation of Bastards is available from the Ruth Institute Reading List, along with a bunch of other good books. I have been making this point for some time: the immediate impact of same sex marriage is very far from its full long-run impact, very much as “reducing the cost of divorce for people in bad marriages,” was a long way from being the main impact or final impact of eliminating the fault basis for divorce. Read more…
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