Christian sociologist Shaunti Feldhahn thinks that almost everything we’ve been told about marriage and divorce is wrong.
The Harvard-trained researcher spent eight years getting to the data on broken marriages—and the results might shock you. We’ve heard the statistic that half of all marriages end in divorce.
Not so fast, says Feldhahn, who offers her findings in a new book, “The Good News About Marriage.” Like most sociologists, Feldhahm says she’s stood up on stage and said every one of those wrong statistics.” Now, she’s on a mission to correct false assumptions.
She discovered that the actual divorce rate isn’t even close to that number.
“There is no such thing as a 50% divorce rate. It’s never [even] been close. Right now, 72% of people are still married to their first spouse—that’s Census Bureau data,” she says. Eighty percent of married couples who worship together consider themselves “happy” or “very happy.”
–“The Connector,” newsletter published by Intercessors for America, July/August 2014, p.4
(The Timothy Report, www.timothyreport.com), and seen in Cup O’Cheer