The Rate of Births, Marriages, Divorces, and Deaths
Year Births Marriages Divorces Deaths Population (in millions)
2003 14.1 7.7 3.8 8.3 291.4
2004 14.0 7.8 3.7 8.1 293.6
2005 14.0 7.5 3.6 8.2 296.5
2006 14.3 7.3 3.7 8.1 299.1
2007 14.3 7.3 3.6 8.0 302.2
2008 13.9 7.1 3.5 8.1 304.5
Note:
1. All rates are per 1,000 total population.
2. The date are based on 12 months ending with December.
3. Marrage and divorce data in this report are counts of all events occurring in the state that were received in the registration offices during the 1-month period. Divorce figures include reported annuments. There is considerable variability among the states in the produces that are used to submit the counts of marriages and divorces to NCHS and in the extent to which the states update their counts of marriages and divorces as new information is received.
This dates are based on “U.S. department of Health and human Services.”
We know the current U.S. divorce rate that 50% of American marriages will end in divorce.
In 2008,
- Number of marriages: 2,162,000
- Marriage rate: 7.1 per 1,000 total population
- Divorce rate: 3.5 per 1,000 population (44 reporting States and D.C.)
Barna report: Variation in divorce rates among Christian faith groups:
| Denomination (in order of decreasing divorce rate) | % who have been divorced
|
| Non-denominational ** | 34% |
| Baptists | 29% |
| Mainline Protestants | 25% |
| Mormons | 24% |
| Catholics | 21% |
| Lutherans | 21% |
Barna’s results verified findings of earlier polls: that conservative Protestant Christians, on average, have the highest divorce rate, while mainline Christians have a much lower rate. They found some new information as well: that atheists and agnostics have the lowest divorce rate of all. George Barna commented that the results raise “questions regarding the effectiveness of how churches minister to families.” The data challenge “the idea that churches provide truly practical and life-changing support for marriage.“
Donald Hughes, author of The Divorce Reality, said:
“In the churches, people have a superstitious view that Christianity will keep them from divorce, but they are subject to the same problems as everyone else, and they include a lack of relationship skills. …Just being born again is not a rabbit’s foot.”
Hughes claim that 90% of divorces among born-again couples occur after they have been “saved.”
From: http://www.religioustolerance.org/chr_dira.htm
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