Marriages Continue To Decline In America

A Gallup poll was conducted answering some of these kinds questions. Here is what they found:

Americans See Marriage As Less Important For Couples With Children Together

Fewer U.S. adults now than in past years believe it is “very important” for couples who have children together to be married. Currently, 29% say it is very important that such a couple legally marry, down from 38% who held this view in 2013 and 49% in 2006.

31% adults say it is “somewhat important.” 18% say it is not too important, and 22% say it is not important at all.

In 2006, according to Gallup polls, 49% Americans said it is very important for couples with children to wed. 23% were on the other end of the spectrum.

According to Gallup, these numbers remain consistent with American’s changing views on marriage. 66% polled currently believe it is morally acceptable to have a baby outside of marriage. This is a 53% since first being asked this question in 2001. 72% consider sex between an unmarried man and woman morally acceptable. This again is also another 53% increase since 2001.

They note that young adults and those who politically identify as liberal – views remain consistent with what was polled in 2013, compared to other groups who had noticeable differences.

Americans More Inclined to See Marriage as Critical for Life Partners

In a separate question, 38% Americans are more likely to believe it is very important for couples to marry if they plan to spend the rest of their lives together than if they have a child together. 26% feel it is somewhat important for couples who plan to spend their lives together to get married, while 15% say it is not too important and 21% say it is not important at all.

In 2006, those who are more likely to believe it is very important for couples to marry if they plan to spend the rest of their lives together – the number used to be much higher at 54%.

Desire for Marriage Still Strong; Most Have Been Married

The Gallup poll finds that 69% Americans have been married at some point, which includes those currently married, divorced, or widowed. In 2006 this number was at 80% – a 11% decrease.

Of the 49% currently married – this number has declined from 55% in 2006.

The report also includes that between 1978-83, the percentage of those currently married was at 64%. This is a 15% decrease from 1983-2020.

In the late 1970’s and early 80’s, the poll found that 5% report divorcement to 10% since 2015.

81% who say they have not been married say they hope to be married someday.

Down The Toilet

Citing a separate report from Wilkinson & Finkbeiner Family Law Attorneys, – over 115 facts regarding divorce in America are provided. Here are some of those numbers.

• As of 2016, both marriage rates AND divorce rates in the US are decreasing. Recent studies have shown that millennials are choosing to wait longer to get married and staying married longer and are the main driver in the decline of both the marriage and divorce rate in the US.
• The marriage rate in the United States is currently 6.8 per 1,000 total population.
• The divorce rate in the U.S. is  3.2 per 1,000 population (as of 2014 the latest year of data from the CDC. (with 44 states and D.C. reporting) This is known as the “crude divorce rate”. Although useful for describing changes in divorce rates over time, the crude divorce rate does not provide accurate information on the percentage of first marriages that end in divorce.
• Currently, the divorce rate per 1000 married women is 16.9.  Many experts feel that this is a much more accurate measure of true divorce rate than the crude rate.
• The divorce rate per 1000 married women is nearly double that of 1960, but down from the all-time high of 22.6 in the early 1980s.
• Almost 50 percent of all marriages in the United States will end in divorce or separation.
• Researchers estimate that 41 percent of all first marriages end in divorce.
• 60 percent of second marriages end in divorce.
• 73 percent of all third marriages end in divorce.
• The United States has the 6th highest divorce rate in the world.
• Every 13 seconds, there is one divorce in America. That equates to 277 divorces per hour, 6,646 divorces per day, 46,523 divorces per week, and 2,419,196 divorces per year.
• The average first marriage that ends in divorce lasts about 8 years.
• Wives are the ones who most often file for divorce at 66 percent on average. That figure has soared to nearly 75 percent in some years.
• The divorce rate among U.S. Navy Seals is over 90 percent.
• Lack of commitment is the most common reason given by divorcing couples of 73% (respondents gave more than one answer resulting in higher percentages).
• 60 percent of couples married between the age of 20 -25 will end in divorce.
• If both you and your partner have had previous marriages, you are 90 percent more likely to get divorced than if this had been the first marriage for both of you.
• If you’re an evangelical Christian adult who has been married, there’s a 26 percent likelihood that you’ve been divorced—compared to a 28 percent chance for Catholics and a 38 percent chance for non-Christians.
• Women who lost their virginity as a teenager are more than twice as likely to get divorced in the first 5 years of marriage than women who waited until age 18 or older.
• The risk of divorce was said to be almost doubled – 97 percent higher – when the mother went out to work but her husband made a “minimal contribution” to housework and childcare.
• In 2011, Facebook was cited as a major contributor to 1/3 of divorce petitions examined by one U.K. study.
• Pornography addiction was cited as a factor in 56 percent of divorces according to a recent study.
• If your parents married others after divorcing, you’re 91 percent more likely to get divorced.
• Half of all children in the United States will witness the ending of a parent’s marriage.
• A recent study of divorce petitions found that nearly 15 percent of them cited video game addiction as a major factor in the decision to get divorced.
• Forty-three percent of children in the United States are being raised without their fathers.
• If a close friend gets divorced, you are 147% more likely to become divorced and 33% more likely if a friend of a friend is divorced.

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AUTHOR COMMENTARY

The numbers are undeniable, and there is no question that they will get worse. The data compilation by that law firm noted in the beginning of their report that these numbers have not been adjusted since the Covid-19 hysteria. As 2021 gets rolling, we will learn of the new numbers. I imagine these numbers all went up to some degree.

[1] Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils; [2] Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron; [3] Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth.

1 Timothy 4:1-3

Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.

Hebrews 13:4

The King James Bible got right again. It prophesized that people were going to forbid marriage, and these numbers prove that. These numbers were just for America – now factoring in other nations, the numbers are astronomical.

The numbers speak for themselves, but there are a few that I thought were intriguing:

With the divorce-rate among professing Evangelicals tells a story that many of these relationships came from fornication, and in some cases, a bit a social status among their congregations.

Another cause of divorce had to do with video games. The WinePress has reported on the video game pandemic we are facing, along with fast-food companies like KFC making gaming consoles combining them with dummy-downed microwaves built in them. This further validates that video games are not just time-wasters, but have serious and lifetime consequences attached to them.

There is a lot that could be that said here in response to these facts, but there is no denying that we are in fact in the latter days and end times that the Bible said would happen.

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