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12-05-2008, 03:47 PM
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Re: Educated Less Likely to Divorce than Evangelic
Yeah, but how do they explain all the educated evangelical's that get divorced then?
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12-05-2008, 03:48 PM
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Re: Educated Less Likely to Divorce than Evangelic
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I don't know why you see it as a dig. It is true that the divorce rate among evangelicals is high. And he said it was 16% amongst college educated. If that is a fact then it is a fact, not a dig.
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As an evangelical I have observed that the general attitude toward divorce among evangelicals is about the same as in the unchurched. There's just as not as much stigma attached to it as in so-called 'holiness' churches. As a former holiness person I've observed that marriages in that camp aren't more or less better or worse than non-holiness marriages, in my opinion, but that holiness people generally stay together longer than non-holiness people. Some divorce after longer periods of marriage (20 yrs), and others learn to live in dysfunctional marriages till death do us part. Some are great marriages, but the severely dysfunctional ones prob should end rather than continue, imo. Obviously, these are ad hoc observations and not based on any sort of research.
What were the reasons given for marriages lasting longer amongst educated people vs. evangelicals?
And what is the rate of divorce among 'holiness' groups like the UPCI and others? I know that it was alot more frequent in the holiness churches I attended (especially in the 'mega' churches) than they'd like to admit.
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12-05-2008, 03:49 PM
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Re: Educated Less Likely to Divorce than Evangelic
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Without speaking to the findings themselves I do think many marriages fail due to people getting married at too young an age. I consistently tell my son not to even THINK about getting married until he's out of college and working full-time for two years, approx 25 yrs old or so.
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I sure agree with you on that brother. A lot of people get married too young. But then some people get married young and in high school and don't get divorced.
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If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
2 Chronicles 7:14 KJV
He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God? Micah 6:8 KJV
Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is. 1 John 3:2 KJV
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12-05-2008, 04:02 PM
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Re: Educated Less Likely to Divorce than Evangelic
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What were the reasons given for marriages lasting longer amongst educated people vs. evangelicals?
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Waiting for marriage until they were older and less money stresses.
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And what is the rate of divorce among 'holiness' groups like the UPCI and others? I know that it was alot more frequent in the holiness churches I attended (especially in the 'mega' churches) than they'd like to admit.
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I don't know what the rate is but, yes, having been there for 19 years it was quite prevalent regardless of teaching against it. In the first church I was in, I was there 9 years, and the attendance was about 35-45 during that time. I can think of 6 divorces. 2 or 3 were where both were in the church. and 3 or 4 where one was not.
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12-05-2008, 04:10 PM
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Re: Educated Less Likely to Divorce than Evangelic
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Waiting for marriage until they were older and less money stresses.
I don't know what the rate is but, yes, having been there for 19 years it was quite prevalent regardless of teaching against it. In the first church I was in, I was there 9 years, and the attendance was about 35-45 during that time. I can think of 6 divorces. 2 or 3 were where both were in the church. and 3 or 4 where one was not.
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I guess then that my advice to my son is good advice then. I'm college educated, so maybe that's why I intuit that.  And having gotten engaged at 18 and having gone thru severe money problems 'educated' me to say that as well; the school of hard knocks.
I can attest to the high divorce rate amongst my Bridal College classmates who were in fulltime ministry over the last 3-4 years as well. I guess at many reasons for that as well.
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12-05-2008, 04:13 PM
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Re: Educated Less Likely to Divorce than Evangelic
Wow - friends and I have discussed this so many times.
In my generation if you weren't married by 19 or 20 everyone thought you were never going to get married.
Also, the choice of mates was small because we HAD to marry within the UPC ranks.
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12-05-2008, 04:17 PM
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Re: Educated Less Likely to Divorce than Evangelic
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Wow - friends and I have discussed this so many times.
In my generation if you weren't married by 19 or 20 everyone thought you were never going to get married.
Also, the choice of mates was small because we HAD to marry within the UPC ranks.
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This could contribute to a lot of divorces, as well.
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12-05-2008, 04:20 PM
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Re: Educated Less Likely to Divorce than Evangelic
I really wasn't trying to be argumentative.
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If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
2 Chronicles 7:14 KJV
He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God? Micah 6:8 KJV
Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is. 1 John 3:2 KJV
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12-05-2008, 04:21 PM
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Re: Educated Less Likely to Divorce than Evangelic
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This could contribute to a lot of divorces, as well.
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I know several couples that this has happened to and they just feel like their marriage is like a brother/sister relationship because of that. I'm amazed at how many couples I know that are divorced or are on the verge of divorce.
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12-05-2008, 04:22 PM
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Re: Educated Less Likely to Divorce than Evangelic
This may be true now, but I don't think it was when I was growing up. Or it was well hidden if it was.
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If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
2 Chronicles 7:14 KJV
He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God? Micah 6:8 KJV
Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is. 1 John 3:2 KJV
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