Perhaps it's a result of Casey and Oli (or #16 and Olive) having left me to fester in the broom closet all alone and with too many loose ends to tie up. Come back fellaz; your COMPANY NEEDS you!!!
That said, it has been a busy week. So I decided to find some quiet time this morning and came to Classic Coffee on Scooty Puff so that I could continue studying and writing with fewer interruptions. This is my "sanity break" - coming up for air after too much time in text.
This week we're looking at divorce and having just read some intersting analysis from the Barna Group I thought I'd share some stats from their 2008 study as well as some analysis offered by George Barna himself:
- Among adults who have been married, the study discovered that one-third (33%) have experienced at least one divorce. That means that among all Americans 18 years of age or older, whether they have been married or not, 25% have gone through a marital split.
- Born again Christians who are not evangelical were indistinguishable from the national average on the matter of divorce: 33% have been married and divorced.
George Barna, who directed the study, noted that Americans have grown comfortable with divorce as a natural part of life.
"There no longer seems to be much of a stigma attached to divorce; it is now seen as an unavoidable rite of passage," the researcher indicated. "Interviews with young adults suggest that they want their initial marriage to last, but are not particularly optimistic about that possibility. There is also evidence that many young people are moving toward embracing the idea of serial marriage, in which a person gets married two or three times, seeking a different partner for each phase of their adult life."
Divorce is easy and marriage is hard...come and find out why Grace states that divorce is always destructive.
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