by Joker10 35 Replies latest jw friends
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.
Virgins have some 70 percent lower divorce rate than those who are not virgins
Joker, are you referring to this?
On the allegation that cohabitation increases the risk of divorce:
"The most sophisticated studies have found that, although cohabitation engenders somewhat more liberal attitudes toward divorce, it does not increase the likelihood of marital disruption."
- Final report prepared for the Department of Health and Human Services by Abt Associates. "The Determinants of Marriage and Cohabitation Among Disadvantaged Americans: Research Findings and Needs." Marriage and Family Formation Data Analysis Project, March 2003.
"The problem with this research is that it does not adequately account for selection -- people who choose to live together before marriage are not the same people who choose to marry directly. They comprise at least two different groups with different attitudes toward marriage, religion, and relationships in general. ... To attribute premarital cohabitors' higher subsequent divorce rate and non-premarital-cohabitors' lower subsequent divorce rate to the fact that they did and did not cohabit before they married is unwarranted and bad science."
- William Pinsof, family psychologist and President of the Family Institute at Northwestern University, in Family Process, vol. 41, no. 2, 2002
"Claims that individuals who cohabit before marriage hurt their chances of a good marriage pay too little attention to this evidence [research showing that it is likely other factors, not cohabitation, that create the apparent difference in divorce rates]."
- Judith Seltzer, University of California sociologist, in "Families Formed Outside of Marriage," Journal of Marriage and the Family, November 2000.
http://www.unmarried.org/experts.html#lasting
From the same site:
"Paradoxically, more people today value marriage. They take it seriously. That's why they're more likely to cohabit. They want to make sure before they take the ultimate step."
- Frank Furstenberg, sociologist at University of Pennsylvania, in Newsweek May 28, 2001
GentlyFeral
happily married for 31 years, including 9 years post-jaydub
and 8 (or is it only 7?) years of polyamory
You are not working with genuine facts. Therefore, your conclusions are nonsense.
Farkel
Virgins have some 70 percent lower divorce rate than those who are not virgins
You have got to be kidding. Are you edjumkated?? Did you flunk hukd on fonix?
Virgins should have 100% lower, since being virgins they wouldn't be married. Now there may be a couple SOMEwhere that are both virgins simply living under the same roof, but I suspect one or both of them are closeted gays in that case.
Do you mean that people that have no sex before marriage have a 70% lower divorce rate than those who cohabitate? As others have pointed out, this is just simply false.
see this thread: http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/9/75877/1.ashx
Sheesh................ some people's children.... shaking head
Sherry
Virgins have some 70 percent lower divorce rate than those who are not virgins
