Divorce Rate 50%?

I listened to Family Sanctuary on St. Gabriel radio 820 AM after lunch.  Catherine Wood said that highest divorce has ever been was 40% in 1979.  She said the media took the divorce rate one year (1981) compared to the number of new marriages one year to get 50%!  Divorce rate has declined ever since 1979 and is normally 30%.  70% of couples never divorce!  One in 1000 marriages divorce if the couple prays together!  The family that prays together actually stays together!

Shocking statistics, aren't they?  Those numbers made my day but made me shook my head at what we are told.  Much of what we are told isn't true!

"Recent studies on marriage show that, while their rates of divorce are significant, U.S. Catholics are less likely to divorce than people of other religious affiliations.

“Although the Catholic ‘divorce rate’ is lower than the U.S. average, it is still a daunting figure,” said the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate at Georgetown University.

 

In a Sept. 26 blog post, the research group explained that divorce among Catholics “represents more than 11 million individuals,” many of whom “are likely in need of more outreach and ongoing ministry from the Church.”

In its article, the organization explained that different ways of tallying divorce and marriage rates create a range of different divorce figures, including the oft-quoted statistic that “half of all marriages fail.”

Read more: http://www.ncregister.com/daily-news/catholics-continue-to-have-lowest-divorce-rates/#ixzz33WwCv7Dn

Many of my friends have been divorced, many have not.  People don't stick through marriage like our parents did.  I am sure there is good and bad to that.

Divorce is hard enough on most people involved but it is devastating to the children from the marriage.  Even if one or both partners are very difficult people, it is natural for children to want both parents.  It must be embarrassing at school to be one of the few children going through divorce.

The radio program today gave me hope.  I have quoted the wrong numbers for divorce rate too long.

Ed