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Study Takes a Look at the Role of the Church in Marital Stability
Studies of divorce have generally found that married couples who agree about their religious affiliation and involvement and who believe religion is important are significantly less likely to divorce. However, in a study reported September 8, 2004, the Barna Group found no difference in rates of divorce between “born again” Christians and non-Christians (The Barna Group, 2004).
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According to this study, 35% of “born again” Christians and 35% of non-Christians have experienced a divorce. One of the important differences between the Barna Group’s study and other national studies appears to be that the Barna study looked especially at “Born again Christians” without regard to church affiliation or involvement.
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Date: 7/29/2006
Newsweek follows up on its 20 year old report on single women and their chances for marriage
| Twenty years since Newsweek's infamous 'terrorist' line, states of unions aren't what we predicted they'd be. |
20 years ago: In "The Marriage Crunch," the magazine reported on new demographic research predicting that white, college-educated women who failed to marry in their 20s faced abysmal odds of ever tying the knot.
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According to the research, a woman who remained single at 30 had only a 20 percent chance of ever marrying. By 35, the probability dropped to 5 percent.
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In the story's most infamous line, NEWSWEEK reported that a 40-year-old single woman was "more likely to be killed by a terrorist" than to ever marry. That comparison wasn't in the study, and even in those pre-9/11 days, it struck many people as an offensive analogy. Nonetheless, it quickly became entrenched in pop culture and is still routinely cited in TV shows and news stories.
...Twenty years later, the situation looks far brighter.
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Those odds-she'll-marry statistics turned out to be too pessimistic: today it appears that about 90 percent of baby-boomer men and women either have married or will marry, a ratio that's well in line with historical averages.
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And the days when half of all women would marry by 20, as they did in 1960, only look more anachronistic.
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At least 14 percent of women born between 1955 and 1964 married after the age of 30.
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Today the median age for a first marriage—25 for women, 27 for men—is higher than ever before.
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Date: 6/6/2006
Americans Have Complex Relationship With Marriage
PRINCETON, NJ -- When USA Today asked what the subjects of his film "March of the Penguins" have most in common with humans, director Luc Jacquet answered, "They form couples and are faithful. It's the only way they can raise the chick under extreme conditions."
Jacquet's rendering of love-struck penguin couples struggling to bring their offspring into the world is touchingly humanlike. But marriage is often viewed as a declining institution in U.S. society.
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Date: 5/30/2006
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