We are aware that we cannot force the younger generation to do just about anything. So if we can't convince them to get married because of love, let's convince them they need to do it to save the economy.
Robert Walker | Posted 04.19.2012
There's a basic misconception that clouds the thinking of many social and religious conservatives. Believing that contraceptive use is a moral wrong, they desperately want to make it into a social ill. To do that, they confuse correlation with causation.
Lynn Toler | Posted 04.29.2012
The New Year, it appears, is a good time to shed your old spouse. Divorce filings spike in January and February.
Richard Komaiko | Posted 04.13.2012
The month of February is often associated with romance and valentines, but ironically, it is also the most active month for divorce.
Fahad Faruqui | Posted 01.01.2012
Being coerced into marriage--because wealth, power and tribal ties are good for you--is the beginning of a slippery slope towards renouncing all autonomy in life decisions for those willing to sell their souls for material gain.
Evan Allis | Posted 12.20.2011
A recent working paper from NYU professors Raquel Fernandez and Joyce Cheng Wong suggests that a steady rise in divorce rates throughout the 1960s and...
Delia Lloyd | Posted 12.03.2011
But something else the priest said has also stuck with me through the years: "In my opinion, it's far too easy to get married in this country and far too difficult to get divorced."
The Huffington Post | Ashley Reich | Posted 10.24.2011
A new report from the U.S. Census released Thursday suggests that divorce rates for men and women in the United States vary by region, and not necessa...
Huffington Post | Ashley Reich | Posted 09.02.2011
In honor of Independence Day, we thought we'd take a look at the present-day divorce rates in each of the original 13 colonies, culled from the Center...
Beverly Willett | Posted 07.18.2011
America has the highest rate of divorce in the Western world, and the consequences to our nation's families have been devastating.
Red Room | Posted 07.17.2011
If you are concerned about the "threat" to marriage posed by letting gays in on the deal, the most recent statistics should be heartening. Marriages today are more enduring and less fragile than they used to be.
Nina Lorez Collins | Posted 05.25.2011
The other day a younger friend, a woman in her twenties, called to share news of her engagement. She's been dating a great-seeming guy for about a yea...
Banbury Guardian | Published on Tuesday 21st December 2010 3:07 PM | Posted 05.25.2011
Divorce rates in Scotland have fallen to their lowest level in almost 30 years, new figures have revealed. The statistics show that there were 10,173...
Huffington Post | Ashley Reich | Posted 05.25.2011
According to the United Nations Demographic Yearbook, a collection of global statistics published annually, these 10 countries have the highest number...
Huffington Post | Ashley Reich | Posted 05.25.2011
Talk about optimism--these 9 states have the greatest percentage of people married three times or more. The data, published in the Census Bureau's 200...
Robert Hughes, Jr. | Posted 05.25.2011
The following numbers 3.5, 8.5, 10.5, 20.9, 10.6 all have one thing in common. They are different ways of measuring the 2008 divorce rate in the US. ...
Steve Lake | Posted 11.17.2011
All the statistics in the world won't help you figure out the chances you'll wind up divorced. Divorce isn't something you can predict by only considering what people do for a living.
CBS | Posted 11.17.2011
It's clear that happily ever after isn't always the case. Just look at the news headlines: Sandra Bullock, Al Gore, Tiger Woods, the list goes on. Nea...
Posted 05.25.2011
"Breaking up is hard to do, unless everyone else is doing it too," say three social scientists in a new working paper. In the paper (hat tip to the N...
Eliezer Sobel | Posted 11.17.2011
Thankfully, my personal life is not completely dictated by media-based psychology standards, or I'd wind up on Oprah taking the fall for men in mid-life crisis everywhere.
June Carbone | Posted 05.25.2011
The areas of the country most committed to traditional values have the highest divorce and teen pregnancy rates, and provide the least support for access to contraception and abortion.
nytimes.com | Benedict Carey and Tara Parker-Pope | Posted 11.17.2011
They're done. Toast. The governor needs his head checked. His wife needs to launch his clothes from the bedroom window. Time for those two to get in l...
BBC NEWS | Charles Haviland | Posted 05.25.2011
"The divorce case is very, very common. If you go to the court, you will see most of the cases are all on divorce." It may sound like a comment from ...
Paul Rieckhoff | Posted 05.25.2011
Our troops are missing Christmases, birthdays, and wedding anniversaries -- often back to back. The marathon deployment cycle is adding greater stress to already strained families.
Associated Press | Maria Cheng | Posted 11.17.2011
People who develop cervical or testicular cancer may face another harsh reality: they are more likely to get divorced than those without the disease, ...
Marc Joseph | Posted 05.08.2012