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  • Effects Of Divorce

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Oct 22, 2009
    based on 2 ratings
     | 2,137 views

    EFFECTS OF DIVORCE Focus on the Family states: With more than 30 years of research, we now know divorce seldom leads to a better life. Consider that: 1. Life expectancies for divorced men and women are significantly lower than for married people (who have the longest life expectancies).3 2. A ...read more

  • Divorce In America  PRO

    Contributed by Rob Morton on Jun 5, 2001
    based on 78 ratings
     | 3,276 views

    Divorce in America In 1993 2.3 millions couples married and 1.3 million couples divorced. In 1993 the Bureau of the Census projected that 4 of 10 first marriages will end in divorce. People between the ages of 25 to 39 make up 60% of all divorces. Over one million children are affected by ...read more

  • Divorce Accepted  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 14, 2009
    based on 2 ratings
     | 2,956 views

    DIVORCE ACCEPTED A record 70% of Americans believe divorce is morally acceptable (up 59% from ’00), finds Gallup’s ’08 Values and Beliefs Survey. Marriage Savers’ Mike McManus says, “Since 1970, that’s 42 million divorces, shattering the lives of 40 million children. We have the highest divorce ...read more

  • The Divorce Rate  PRO

    Contributed by Jeff Simms on Jul 6, 2003
    based on 5 ratings
     | 2,676 views

    Back in 1870’s there was one divorce for every 34 marriages. By 1900, one in five marriages ended in divorce. Today, one ...read more

  • Divorce Fraud

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Aug 5, 2008
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     | 1,804 views

    In late July of 2008, this article appeared: KOLKATA, India (Reuters) - An Indian man who took an impersonator to court to get a divorce faces legal action after his real wife found out, lawyers said Friday. Sanjib Saha presented a woman as his wife in a lower court in the eastern city of Kolkata ...read more

  • Divorce Aftershocks

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 14, 2009
     | 2,292 views

    DIVORCE AFTERSHOCKS The National Child Development Study in the U.K. tracks 17,000 people born in Britain during the same week in 1958. Comparing those individuals with those born years later, the study revealed those in both generations with divorced parents were more likely to suffer from ...read more

  • Divorce Barbie

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 25, 2009
    based on 1 rating
     | 3,399 views

    DIVORCE BARBIE Too many times, we are more concerned with what we get out of giving than what we are trying to give in the first place. A father was sitting in his chair one night reading the paper. All of a sudden, he realized it was his young daughter’s birthday, and he had forgotten to get her ...read more

  • The Impact Of Divorce

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 23, 2010
    based on 1 rating
     | 3,116 views

    THE IMPACT OF DIVORCE Today, there is a generation of children of divorce that has grown up. Elizabeth Marquardt is author of Between Two Worlds: The Inner Lives of Children of Divorce. This scholar, a child of divorce herself, drew from her own experiences and also surveyed 1500 adult children ...read more

  • Barna Research On Divorce  PRO

    Contributed by Thomas Monroe on Feb 18, 2002
    based on 32 ratings
     | 4,744 views

    Barna research shows: That divorce in the church is just as commonas outside the church. In the church 33%, outside the church 34%. Also, the south is second in the nation in divorce. The south has a divorce rate of 35%, just behind the west (38%), and leading the Midwest (32%) and ...read more

  • U.s. Divorce Statistics  PRO

    Contributed by Brian Mavis on Dec 7, 2001
    based on 5 ratings
     | 2,810 views

    U.S. Divorce Statistics (1997 except where noted) Total divorces granted: 1,163,000 Rate per 1,000 population (1999): (excluding CA, CO, IN and LA) 4.1 State with the lowest divorce rate: Massachusetts. Rate per 1,000 population: 2.4 State with the higest divorce rate: Nevada. Rate per ...read more

  • Divorce Costs Everyone

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 16, 2009
     | 2,167 views

    DIVORCE COSTS EVERYONE High rates of divorce and unmarried childbearing cost U.S. taxpayers at least $112 billion each year. It is estimated that family fragmentation costs taxpayers more than $1 trillion each decade; about $70.1 billion is at the federal level, $33.3 billion at the state level ...read more

  • Living Together And Divorce

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 11, 2009
     | 2,446 views

    LIVING TOGETHER AND DIVORCE A recent study by the Penn State University interviewed 92 couples found, in general, those who lived together before marriage were • more verbally aggressive, • more hostile and • less supportive than those who waited until marriage to live ...read more

  • Richard Eye On Divorce

    Contributed by Davon Huss on Apr 16, 2013
     | 1,922 views

    RICHARD EYRE ON DIVORCE "We now have over 40 years worth of very conclusive statistics that show that children from two parent homes (a mother and a father) are at substantially less risk for drug abuse, teen pregnancy, school dropout, suicide, and a whole host of other problems. Statistically ...read more

  • Children Not Happier After Divorce  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 8, 2008
    based on 4 ratings
     | 1,494 views

    CHILDREN NOT HAPPIER AFTER DIVORCE "One of the many myths of our culture is that divorce automatically rescues children from an unhappy marriage . . . However, when one looks at the thousands of children that my colleagues and I have interviewed at our center since 1980, most of whom were from ...read more

  • In The Effects Of Divorce On America By Patrick ...

    Contributed by Thomas Cash on Jan 13, 2005
     | 1,312 views

    In The Effects of Divorce on America by Patrick F. Fagan and Robert Rector, we are told that American society may have erased the stigma that once accompanied divorce, but it can no longer ignore its massive effects. As social scientists track successive generations of American children whose ...read more

  • Divorce Used To Be Taboo In Asia, But No Longer. ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 18, 2006
    based on 1 rating
     | 1,455 views

    Divorce used to be taboo in Asia, but no longer. In the last 20 years in China divorce rates have doubled. Divorce rates in South Korea rival those in Britain and Denmark. India’s divorce rate has increased in the last 10 years to 11 per 1,000 marriages. In Japan, there is a divorce ...read more

  • The Effects Of Divorce On America By Patrick F. ...  PRO

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Mar 18, 2005
    based on 3 ratings
     | 1,713 views

    The Effects of Divorce on America by Patrick F. Fagan and Robert Rector Fagan: American society may have erased the stigma that once accompanied divorce, but it can no longer ignore its massive effects. As social scientists track successive generations of American children whose parents have ended ...read more

  • Divorce Negatively Affects Children: Stats  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 22, 2009
    based on 2 ratings
     | 2,654 views

    DIVORCE NEGATIVELY AFFECTS CHILDREN: STATS Children get emotionally scarred and traumatized from divorce. Children and Divorce: A report on educating students from divorced and single-parent homes by the NEA Standing Committee on Instruction and Professional Development: The majority of research ...read more

  • Divorce Doesn't Mean Happiness

    Contributed by Jeffrey Wildrick on Jun 29, 2009
     | 1,868 views

    DIVORCE DOESN'T MEAN HAPPINESS Survey of those who had been seriously considering divorce. Five years later, revisited. Some had divorced, some had done hard work to stay together. On repeat survey, those who had done hard work and stayed together rated their lives as happier than those who’d ...read more

  • Consider What We Know About Divorce In The ...

    Contributed by D. Greg Ebie on Nov 12, 2003
     | 799 views

    Consider what we know about divorce in the United States: > In 1998 2.2 million couples married and 1.1 million divorced. > In 2000, 58 million couples were married yet separated and another 21 million couples were divorced. > People between the ages of 25 to 39 account for 60% of all ...read more

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