Sunday, June 03, 2007
Marriage in America
Some of the realities in this article are really quite astonishing (and depressing)...
I found these statistics, and many others, in an article at the Economist.com:
"Among high-school dropouts, the divorce rate rose from 38% for those who first married in 1975-79 to 46% for those who first married in 1990-94. Among those with a high school diploma but no college, it rose from 35% to 38%. And these figures are only part of the story. Many mothers avoid divorce by never marrying in the first place. The out-of-wedlock birth rate among women who drop out of high school is 15%. Among African-Americans, it is a staggering 67%."
