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…
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…
“Many couples are rediscovering the longstanding sociological truth that marriage is one of society’s best insurance plans”. Amen. Take that, Britain. This article shows that the recession was not all bad.
How are marriages — American marriages, at least — doing during the Great Recession? That is the question the latest State of Our Unions report from the National Marriage Project sets out to answer, and the findings are not all bad news.
Good News: Divorce fell during the first full year of the recession — the first annual dip since 2005, and evidence that the challenges of job losses, foreclosures and depleted retirement accounts may be driving some couples to stick together, says a press release from NMP. Read more…
Carolyn Moynihan, MercatorNet.com
We are used to the sad stories of children who have never known their fathers, and of those whose fathers become estranged through divorce; but there are a growing number of children who risk losing the only father they have ever known because he discovers he is not their father after all. Read more…
Charlie Butts – OneNewsNow -
A California man wants divorce outlawed.
John Marcotte has filed for a ballot initiative to protect traditional marriage in the state of California as an extension of the work related to Proposition 8, the voter-approved constitutional amendment that defines marriage as between one man and one woman. In essence, Marcotte’s project would legally ban divorce. Read more…
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