Only 7% of couples who attend services once a month will divorce within the first 5 years of marriage. The rate for those who go to church once a year or less is 2 ½ times higher. U.S. government's National Survey of Family Growth, Atheists won't save Europe by don feder http://www.frontpagemagazine.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=27937
The overwhelming majority of married men (94 percent)say that they are happier being married than being single. 9The State of our unions 2004; http://marriage.rutgers.edu/Publications/SOOU/TEXTSOOU2004.htm
73% percent say that their sexual life is better since getting married, and 68% say that marriage has helped them become more financially stable.^9
In times past and up to the present, almost all persons who were married did so by age 45. In every generation for which records exist, going back to the mid-1800s, more than 90% of women have married eventually By 1960, 94 percent of women then alive had been married at least once by age 45.^9
Between 1960 AND 2002, the number of unmarried couples [otherwise known as fornicators, living in sin] in America (couples who are sexual partners, not married to each other, and sharing a household, increased by over 1100 percent.^9
Since 1960, there has been an 850 percent increase in the number of cohabiting couples who live with children.^9
Only 51% of people between the ages 18-34 agree with the statement “those who want children should get married.” (2002).^9
While in 1960 only nine percent of all children lived in single-parent families, a figure that had changed little over the course of the 20th century, by 2003 the percentage had jumped to 27 percent.^9
64% of boys and 55% of girls "agreed" or "mostly agreed" with the [sinful] statement that "it is usually a good idea for a couple to live together before getting married in order to find out whether they really get along."^9
Since 1960, the percentage of babies born to unwed mothers has increased more than sixfold.^9
70% percent of the children in unmarried-couple households are the children of only one partner. Larry Bumpass, J. A. Sweet and A. Cherlin, “The Role of Cohabitation in Declining Rates of Marriage,” Demography 53 (1991):913-27.^9
An estimated 40% of all children today are expected to spend some time in a cohabiting household during their growing up years. Larry Bumpass and Hsien-Hen Lu, “Trends in Cohabitation and Implications for Children’s Family Contexts in the U.S.,” Population Studies 54 (2000) 29-41
Between 1960 and 1990, there was a 41% decline in marriage. Larry L. Bumpass, "What's Happening to the Family? Interactions Between Demographic and Institutional Change," presidential address to the Population Association of America, Demography, Vol. 27, No. 4 (November 1990), pp. 483-498, and Janice S. Crouse, "Strengthening American Families: What Works and What Doesn't Work," World Congress of Families II, Geneva, November 1999, Figure 9; http://www.josh.org/notes/file/Internet8-Divorce.pdf.
About 50 percent of marriages end in divorce. 10T.D. Eddins; http://www.geocities.com/tdeddins/CHAPTER01.htm
85% of one-parent families in 1999 were mother-child families.^10
Nearly 60 percent of all children born in 1986 may be expected to spend almost a year, or longer, in a one-parent family before reaching age 18.^10
Until the early 1980s, most of employed women (outside the home) were those with no children under age 18. Today, married women whose youngest child is between 6 and 17 years of age constitute the largest sector of female employment. 64% are also employed whose youngest child is under age 6.^10
Estimates are that approx. 66% of the people who divorce will eventually remarry.^10
The divorce of parents also reduces the likelihood that a child will attain a college education. The college attendance rate is about 60 percent lower among children of divorced parents compared with children of intact families. Janet B. Hardy et al., "Self-Sufficiency at Ages 27-33 Years: Factors Present Between Birth and 18 Years that Predict Educational Attainment Among Children Born to Inner-City Families," Pediatrics, Vol. 99 (1997), pp. 80-87. http://www.hispeace.org/html/artic27.htm
Almost 50 percent of households with children undergoing divorce move into poverty following the divorce. Julia Heath, "Determinants of Spells of Poverty Following Divorce," Review of Social Economy, Vol. 49 (1992), pp. 305-315. http://www.hispeace.org/html/artic27.htm
In 2002, 72.9 million children under age 18 lived in the United States and represented 25 percent of the population, down from a peak of 36 percent at the end of the baby boom in 1964. Children are projected to be 24 percent of the population in 2020. http://www.childstats.gov/ac2004/pdf/pop.pdf.
In 1998, 26% lof America's children, lived in single - parent, “maintained by mother” households; 6% in “maintained by father” households.” U.S. Census Bureau; US Statistical Abstract, Table 76,
In 1998, only 68% of American children live with “two parent family groups” (down from 77% in 1980). U.S. Census Bureau, Current Population Reports, (estimated) http://www.prcdc.org/summaries/children/children.html
Only 57% of teens live in the same home with both of their natural parents. (1999) http://www.barna.org/FlexPage.aspx?Page=Topic&TopicID=37
Between 1960 and 1990, the percentage of children living apart from their biological fathers more than doubled, from 17 percent to 36 percent. http://mensightmagazine.com/Articles/Popenoe/nofathers.htm
Children who are raised without their fathers account for 63 percent of youth suicides, 71 percent of pregnant teenagers, 90 percent of homeless and runaway children, 85 percent of behavioral disorders exhibited by children, and 71 percent of high school dropouts, in the United States. House Concurrent Resolution 147; [2001?]. https://fatherhood.safeserver.com/legislative.htm.
A child born to a single mother is twice as likely to drop out of high school, twice as likely to have a child before age twenty, and one and a half times as likely to be out of school and out of work in his/her late teens and early twenties. U.S. Census Bureau, Current Population Reports, (estimated) Executive Summary:Status of Children in America http://www.prcdc.org/summaries/children/children.html
The general health problems of children from broken homes increase by 20 to 30%, even when adjusting for demographic factors (economic status, etc.). Studies cited in "Twice as strong," The Christian American, March/April 1996, p. 28 http://www.leaderu.com/marco/marriage/gaymarriage5.html#ref221
Nearly one in six adolescents ages 12 to 19 were overweight in the United States in 1999-2002, more than triple the rate in 1976-1980. http://www.childtrendsdatabank.org/indicators/15OverweightChildrenYouth.cfm
70% of children in state reform institutions grew up in single-parent or no-parent homes. "Be glad for the undoing of no-faults," Colorado Springs Gazette Telegraph, February 15, 1996, p. B-5. http://www.leaderu.com/marco/marriage/gaymarriage5.html#ref224
9THE STATE of OUR UNIONS 2004 marriage.rutgers.edu/Publications/SOOU/TEXTSOOU2004.htm
10.T.D. Eddins; http://www.geocities.com/tdeddins/CHAPTER01.htm