Want to increase your chance of divorce? just be a religiously conservative Protestant

[Skwim]

"Divorce is higher among religiously conservative Protestants – and even drives up divorce rates for other people living around them, a new study finds.

The study, slated to be published in the American Journal of Sociology, tackles the “puzzling paradox” of why divorce is more common in religiously conservative “red” states. If religious conservatives believe firmly in the value of marriage, why is divorce especially high in places like Alabama and Arkansas?

. . . . people living in areas with lots of conservative Protestants were at higher risk of getting divorced, even if they weren’t conservative Protestants themselves.

County by county, for every 1% increase in the share of conservative Protestants compared with mainline Protestants, the divorce rate increased 0.02%, the study found.
source
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What gets me is the next-to-last last statement.

"people living in areas with lots of conservative Protestants were at higher risk of getting divorced, even if they weren’t conservative Protestants themselves."

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Just living by these folk has a negative impact!!! Now that's scary.

 

[Sunstone]

My guess is the divorce rates might have something to do with the way fundamentalists often place such great emphasis on person's religious beliefs as a guide to their character and behavior. I used to have a copy of a national sociological survey from the 90s in which the authors mentioned their finding of a higher divorce rate among that group and speculated that it might be due to that factor.

In other words, fundamentalists too often assume that if you're a fundamentalist, you're not going to beat your spouse, fail to hold up your end of the marriage, cheat on your spouse, etc. They think religion has more to do with a person's behavior than it usually does, and so they don't look hard enough at someone's character.

As I recall, the sociologists thought this might be especially true of fundamentalist women -- that they, even more than the men, relied on a person's religion as a guide to a person's behavior.

 

[Parsimony]

I'm never getting married, so looks like I won't have any problems there (although I'm not so sure that the word "conservative" adequately describes me any longer).

 

[Smart_Guy]

Divorce is so not common where I live. I have so many relatives and acquaintances and in my whole life I experienced like only 3 of 4 cases of divorce only. I don't hear people say things like "my ex-partner" or "my step relative" so much.

I believe if we take the middle instead of loosening up so much or be over strict in the religious part, things are gonna be fine.

Just my 2 cents.

 

[oldbadger]

"Divorce is higher among religiously conservative Protestants – and even drives up divorce rates for other people living around them, a new study finds.

. . . . people living in areas with lots of conservative Protestants were at higher risk of getting divorced, even if they weren’t conservative Protestants themselves...........

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Now that's scary.​

Some folks do trawl thru the rubbish to bolster up an agenda.
This might be an example.
They've even blamed the conservation religious folks for their neighbours' divorces....... talk about rubbish in/rubbish out.

The States with the highest divorce rates seem to be:-
Divorce in the United States - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Idaho
Kentucky
Nevada
Tennessee
West Virginia
Wyoming
Wisconsin

Now what can be dug out of that? I think I'll dig up the States with the lowest divorce rates and see if there's any tenuous junk to attach to them.

Let's look at States with the lowest allowable marriage ages:-
Source is wiki....ok?
New Hampshire:.........................A female between the age of 13 and 17 years and a male between the age of 14 and 17 years can be married .......

New York: ..........If either applicant is 14 or 15 years of age, such applicant(s) must present the written consent of both parents and a justice of the Supreme Court or a judge of the Family Court...........................

South Carolina: ..............The minimum age for a female is 15 (13 if she is pregnant, has a physician's statement verifying same, and the consent of her parents[96]) and it is 16 for a male.

Utah: ...............................For those 15 years old, the following requirements must be met:.........

Sociology is one of the least accurate of sciences, and many 'quacks' must find sociological rocks big enough to hide under, and gain a good living from.
I wouldn't know about Jennifer Glass, but I think she probably needed to be less subjective in her approach to 'reasons for divorce in .....'
A joke.
Oh...... and when people ride these straw ponies..... it's scary.... very scary....

I ain't religious, let alone conservative religious, so.... no agenda.​

 

[Revoltingest]

The States with the highest divorce rates seem to be:
Idaho
Kentucky
Nevada
Tennessee
West Virginia
Wyoming
Wisconsin

It appears that living in states with impressive natural beauty puts marriages at risk.

 

[Skwim]

Just a FYI correlation from the linked site.

 

[Sunstone]

It appears that living in states with impressive natural beauty puts marriages at risk.

If that were true, Colorado would have the highest divorce rate in the country. Instead, we have the highest per capita rate of falling off cliffs.

 

[Saint Frankenstein]

It appears that living in states with impressive natural beauty puts marriages at risk.

Than the West Coast and the Pacific Northwest would have the highest divorce rates.

 

[Sunstone]

Than the West Coast and the Pacific Northwest would have the highest divorce rates.

Umm....following Colorado, of course.

 

[Saint Frankenstein]

Umm....following Colorado, of course.

Yeah, no. :no:

 

[Sunstone]

Yeah, no. :no:

There's only one civilized way to settle a dispute of this nature. Arm-wrestling at dawn!

 

[Saint Frankenstein]

There's only one civilized way to settle a dispute of this nature. Arm-wrestling at dawn!

Fine with me. You're approaching retirement age, whereas I'm young and vigorous.

 

[Sunstone]

Fine with me. You're approaching retirement age, whereas I'm young and vigorous.

Which means I've got a whole lot more tricks than you do! :yes:

 

[Saint Frankenstein]

Which means I've got a whole lot more tricks than you do! :yes:

Yeah - cheating.

 

[MysticSang'ha]

Southern Illinois beats everybody in everything. We have miles and miles of GMO corn and soy that will destroy your health. Plus corn fields allows the children around here ample cover to slice your ankles open while you're innocently walking through...

 

[Sunstone]

Yeah - cheating.

I prefer to think of it as "employing resourceful measures".

 

[Sunstone]

Plus corn fields allows the children around here ample cover to slice your ankles open while you're innocently walking through...

Oh man! Does that take me back to my childhood! The cornfields started two blocks from my house and were absolutely the best places to conduct jungle warfare with the other kids in the neighborhood.

 

[Saint Frankenstein]

Southern Illinois beats everybody in everything. We have miles and miles of GMO corn and soy that will destroy your health. Plus corn fields allows the children around here ample cover to slice your ankles open while you're innocently walking through...

Sounds like Ohio. Lol. We're basically nothing but farmland with some big box stores, McDonalds, metro areas and smaller towns in between the farmland. Lol.

 

[oldbadger]

There's only one civilized way to settle a dispute of this nature. Arm-wrestling at dawn!

What? In the U.S. of A?

It's got to be at least shotguns loaded with rock salt. (painful but self healing).
Or at worst AR15s !