Atheists have lowest divorce rate. Evangelical Christians have highest divorce rates.

[Dinner]

Its not really a surprise that Evangelical men have a hard time satisfying a woman.

http://www.religioustolerance.org/chr_dira.htm

On a more serious note it is interesting to see that atheists have the lowest rates of divorce and incarceration rate. It goes against everything that religion teaches people as far as needing a higher being to keep people in check. Let's get rid of religion and improve the world.

[KrazyHorse]

That comparison makes little to no sense unless you control for the number who have been married (even more specifically for the number of years of marriage). If evangelicals get married much earlier than atheists do, yet both have equal divorce rates per year of marriage then the population of evangelicals will have a higher number who have been divorced than the population of atheists will. As I read the results as quoted they have not done so.

[loinburger]

You misspelled "athiests."

[SlowwHand]

It just gets worse and worse.

[Dinner]

That comparison makes little to no sense unless you control for the number who have been married (even more specifically for the number of years of marriage). If evangelicals get married much earlier than atheists do, yet both have equal divorce rates per year of marriage then the population of evangelicals will have a higher number who have been divorced than the population of atheists will. As I read the results as quoted they have not done so.

I don't know. As long as you normalize the rates to a set number and clearly list the major problems (such as, maybe, different rates of marriage) then the results can still be useful for comparison purposes.

[Dinner]

You misspelled "athiests."

Is that supposed to be funny? It is spelled correctly.

[loinburger]

I laughed, who gives a **** if you did.

[KrazyHorse]

I don't know. As long as you normalize the rates to a set number and clearly list the major problems (such as, maybe, different rates of marriage) then the results can still be useful for comparison purposes.

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I'm not saying that what the authors say is a lie. What I'm saying is that if what we're looking for is "morality" (i.e. tendency of a married person to not get divorced) then the quoted numbers don't tell us very much.

[Dinner]

I laughed, who gives a **** if you did.

You should get out more, man.

[Ben Kenobi]

That was a disappointing study.

First off, it asks the question as a percentage of the total, of those who have been divorced, without controlling for those who have never married. If you've never married, then you've never divorced, even if you've broken up many times. Thus, when the marriage rate drops off, the numbers appear to be better.

The question is never asked, what percentage of marriages entered are likely to result in divorce? That we don't know. AFAIK, only 21 percent of all atheists divorce, however, atheists are twice as likely to never marry, at 37 percent.

So, if we look at the remaining 63 percent of which 21 percent divorce, this means that about a third of all atheists who marry eventually divorce.

For the Protestants, who divorce at a rate of 27 percent, and 85 percent get married, this means that again, 27/85, or about 31 percent eventually divorce.

This excludes Catholics, for whom 85 percent also get married, and only 21 percent divorce, this gives us a number of just under 25 percent, which is significantly lower then for atheists and protestants.

Secondly, they do not take multiple marriages into account. If you've been divorced once, you don't get counted for two or three times as the case may be.

[Traianvs]

That was a disappointing study.


The question is never asked, what percentage of marriages entered are likely to result in divorce? That we don't know. AFAIK, only 21 percent of all atheists divorce, however, atheists are twice as likely to never marry, at 37 percent.

And a sensible decision too. Most people shouldn't marry and reproduce. This just goes on to show that atheists are more reasonable

[Wezil]

Don't true christians claim to be "sinners"?

They are required to attend for regular soul scrubbing.

[Tuberski]

You should get out more, man.

Pot. Kettle.

ACK!

[Heresson]

Well, atheists do not have to marry in the first place. So it'd make more sense to ask about
not MARRIAGES falling apart, but RELATIONSHIPS. And in this case I'm pretty sure the results would have been different. An atheist can have 10 quasi-marriage relationships in his life and they won't be counted in these stats, simply because they feel no religious pressure to get married.

[Heresson]

Well, atheists do not have to marry in the first place. So it'd make more sense to ask about
not MARRIAGES falling apart, but RELATIONSHIPS. And in this case I'm pretty sure the results would have been different. An atheist can have 10 quasi-marriage relationships in his life and they won't be counted in these stats, simply because they feel no religious pressure to get married.