Why do X-Witnesses have a higher divorce rate? (page 2)

SheilaM

I don't believe the stats are any higher than in the "world"

Thunder and I have been married for 20 year I am glad he chose to leave along with me....who could not love that

While I could care less about the stats compred to outside the Society, I do agree the devorce rate among JW's is VERY high, too high, and it usually all ends when one or both parties lose their faith.

Of the dozen or so couples we knew who got marrid the same time we did, all but one couple are still together. The others ended in divorce AFTER one of the mates left the Society.

It's as if the reason why they got married was because of the religion and when the religion died, so did the marriage as if one has anything to do with the other.

RR

onacruse

RR:

While I could care less

The proper phraseology is "I couldn't care less."

LOL

Craig

Odrade

And maybe the REASON the marriages end after one of the spouses decides they aren't swallowing the WT bullsh** anymore (read "loses their faith") is because the remaining JW spouse becomes completely intolerant of the now-non-brainwashed spouse, treating them as a corpse.

Of course it doesn't matter to you because as you say you could(n't) care less.

new light

First of all, your stats were not based on a true poll, only a question opened to a group of mostly x-jws the most likely of whom to answer had been through a divorce. Real fair.

Secondly, this might have something to do with it: Most married JW's are espoused to other JW's. When one leaves, marital disaster is almost certain. Make sure your results are unbiased before posting anymore "polls".

jwbot

Probably because a divorce ends up being the starting point of getting out of the religion. Or perhaps with the religion and "it looking bad" not being the reasons to stay together anymore, one can get out of a hurtful, harmful, abusive relationship without the fear of the elders.

RR

The proper phraseology is "I couldn't care less."

I could care less about that too

RR

jgnat

Here are some reliable statistics on divorce.

http://www.statcan.ca/english/kits/pdf/divor3.pdf

In order to get an unbiased result we need to answer a few questions:

Does the society itself keep track of the divorce rate of it's members?
Has the society ever let an unbiased researcher poll their members?
How often does a divorce also include a disfellowshipping or one or both partners leaving the organization? It would be easy for the society to claim a lower divorce rate, if they simply don't count the failures.
How many second marriages begun AFTER society involvement end in divorce?
How does a dramatic change in personal goals and direction affect a marriage?
Does becoming an X-JW partway through the marriage increase the chance of becoming divorced?
Does becoming a Jehovah's Witness partway through the marriage increase the chance of becoming divorced?

According to the statistics above, marriages between young people in their twenties carry the highest risk of divorce in the first five years. If anecdotal evidence proves true, and many JW marriages are between young people in their twenties, then I suspect their divorce rate is as high as the general population.

onacruse

LOL w/ RR

Odrade:

And maybe the REASON the marriages end after one of the spouses decides they aren't swallowing the WT bullsh** anymore (read "loses their faith") is because the remaining JW spouse becomes completely intolerant of the now-non-brainwashed spouse, treating them as a corpse.

new light:

Most married JW's are espoused to other JW's. When one leaves, marital disaster is almost certain.

Yes to both of you: That was exactly the reason for my two divorces.

Considering that literally millions of JWs have left the WTS over the last 30 years, and assuming that a significant number of divorces have happened as a result of one spouse leaving the org, and dividing that by the number of "active" JWs...the divorce rate would be in the range of 20-30% (a conservative estimate, for which I have no stats, as jgnat points out).

The religion binds, and the religion divides.

Craig

Simon

I think your statistics are unrepresentatic and the method unscientific.

I can mentally go round our KH and probably get about 50% of couples who have been divorced. I think the JW rate may be higher than average, it certainly isn't lower from what I've seen.

As for Ex's, I don't know. If people divorce as one leaves the WTS (and the other doesn't) does this count as a JW statistic or an exJW statistic?

Why do X-Witnesses have a higher divorce rate?

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