Number, Timing and Duration of Marriages and Divorces up to 2009
Steven Crowder says that Liberals need to stop lying about divorce. He suggests that the inflated numbers we’ve been hearing for many decades may be related to liberals excusing their own failures. MEEOOOOWWW. Here’s his opinion.
Where Crowder gets his idea is from the top link, a collection of data on marriage and divorce from the Survey of Income and Program Participation, (SIPP).
At worst, it appears that the divorce rate approached a max of 40 percent, has been declining, and is at its lowest since 1970.
There’s the suggestion that government bureaucrats keep themselves employed as administrators of social programs by touting inflated divorce statistics.
The peak is 22.8 divorces per 1000 couples in 1979, which fell to 16.7 divorced per 1000 in 2005.
Interesting.