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Misreporting on Divorce: More people staying married

Seeded on Thu May 7, 2009 11:17 PM EDT
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marriage, divorce, christianity, home-garden
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"One of the most frustrating things about doing research on families is seeing how often even the simple facts are misreported in the press. "

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"Historically high levels": Yes. "Plateaus"? No way: the divorce rate in the United States is currently at its lowest level in twenty-five years, and has fallen nearly every year since 1979.

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Dawn-345105

yeah of course these statistics would come up after a storm of accepted gay marriages..

i dont think many of us can be fooled, and not only that the way the economy is of course nobody wants one yet, but if you look at other statistics, domestic violence is also on the rise

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Reply#1 - Fri May 8, 2009 3:56 AM EDT
jpark

The media always finds ways to amplify and distort things to make them seem worse than they are. Witness the piranha-like frenzy of the media over a simple influenza virus -- H1N1 (which can no longer be called "swine" flu because the media has so overblown it).

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#1.1 - Sun May 10, 2009 4:13 AM EDT
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