Why divorce is so common these days - Page 2

Posted: 14 years ago
Here are some interesting figures

Percentage of New Marriages which End in Divorce, in Selected Countries (2002)
Country Divorces (as % of marriages)
Sweden
Belarus
Finland
Luxembourg
Estonia
Australia
United States
Denmark
Belgium
Austria
Czech Republic
Russia
United Kingdom
Norway
Ukraine
Iceland
Germany
Lithuania
France
Netherlands
Hungary
Canada
Latvia
Moldova
Slovakia
Portugal
Switzerland
Bulgaria
Slovenia
Romania
Poland
Singapore
Greece
Croatia
Spain
Israel
Albania
Azerbaijan
Italy
Georgia
Armenia
Turkey
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Macedonia
Sri Lanka
India
54.9
52.9
51.2
47.4
46.7
46
45.8
44.5
44
43.4
43.3
43.3
42.6
40.4
40
39.5
39.4
38.9
38.3
38.3
37.5
37
34.4
28.1
26.9
26.2
25.5
21.1
20.7
19.1
17.2
17.2
15.7
15.5
15.2
14.8
10.9
10.3
10
6.6
6
6
5
5
1.5
1.1

Posted: 14 years ago
Originally posted by Khatarnak


Here are some interesting figures

Percentage of New Marriages which End in Divorce, in Selected Countries (2002)
Country Divorces (as % of marriages)
Sweden
Belarus
Finland
Luxembourg
Estonia
Australia
United States
Denmark
Belgium
Austria
Czech Republic
Russia
United Kingdom
Norway
Ukraine
Iceland
Germany
Lithuania
France
Netherlands
Hungary
Canada
Latvia
Moldova
Slovakia
Portugal
Switzerland
Bulgaria
Slovenia
Romania
Poland
Singapore
Greece
Croatia
Spain
Israel
Albania
Azerbaijan
Italy
Georgia
Armenia
Turkey
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Macedonia
Sri Lanka
India
54.9
52.9
51.2
47.4
46.7
46
45.8
44.5
44
43.4
43.3
43.3
42.6
40.4
40
39.5
39.4
38.9
38.3
38.3
37.5
37
34.4
28.1
26.9
26.2
25.5
21.1
20.7
19.1
17.2
17.2
15.7
15.5
15.2
14.8
10.9
10.3
10
6.6
6
6
5
5
1.5
1.1

God!
Posted: 14 years ago
Source please....
I'm skeptical about this list as the rate for Sweden seems illogical.
Posted: 14 years ago
Originally posted by return_to_hades


Source please....
I'm skeptical about this list as the rate for Sweden seems illogical.


why are you skeptical, sarina? 😕
Posted: 14 years ago
Originally posted by return_to_hades


Source please....
I'm skeptical about this list as the rate for Sweden seems illogical.


Not sure how authentic it is, but here it is

http://www.divorcemag.com/statistics/statsWorld.shtml

What's so illogical - can you please clarify

The divorce rate in Scandinavian countries is very high
Edited by Khatarnak - 14 years ago
Posted: 14 years ago

I am suspicious of the statistics because Sweden is an anomaly in such social statistics. Sweden has the world's highest percentage of cohabitation, that is unmarried couples living together. The Swedish government also offers certain rights to cohabiting couple, its kind of like a hybrid of common law marriage and domestic partnership, but not marriage in the fullest sense. Many people have nick named it 'marriage-lite'. That is why most people choose not to get married but remain cohabitants.

 

When there are so few marriages, how are there so many divorces? Well the statistics say that most people who do choose to get married, half of those end up getting divorced. That's not that far-fetched or illogical. However, it makes one wonder why go through the  hassle of being married, only to be divorced – when the government does offer cohabitation benefits.

 

That is why most reputable statistics on any marriage, divorce and cohabitation percentages actually have footnotes, excerpts etc explaining what they used to determine their statistics for Sweden and other European countries that have similar anomalies – so that they make sense and such discrepancies are explained. This statistic list did not have such footnotes explaining numbers, which makes me highly suspicious. Most sociological studies, feminist studies like the Rutgers university study have shown that the Swedish divorce rates while alarmingly high and increasing, have always been lower than the United States. Another caveat in this statistics.

 

Now the Divorce Magazine is just a magazine for legal and other divorce help and information and has no reason to skew their statistics. However, when I looked at their source they never compiled the list. They obtained the statistic from a third party called Americans for Divorce Reform. This third party is not a reputable research institute, nor are they known to have conducted any real research into marriage and divorce. They are an evangelical American group promoting what is called 'covenant marriage'. This is a legal arrangement where a couple before marriage legally bound to make the marriage work even if things go wrong. They can divorce only if certain pre-agreed circumstances occur – like abuse, felony or adultery etc. There are several problems with this arrangement. For example - even if a spouse is an out of work alcoholic or junkie, but not physically abusive – there is no grounds for divorce. This 'covenant marriage' is nothing but another way for evangelicals to define marriage and divorce as how their church views it and dismissing other social perspectives.

 

It is not beneath this group to skew statistics based on its agenda. It is actually known to portray socially liberal European countries in a negative light to show that social liberalism is not conducive to healthy society and family. That is why this list appears to have higher divorces in socially liberal countries, and lower divorces in socially conservative countries.  Yes it is true that socially liberal countries do have higher divorce rates, but I would not take it at face value based on this statistic. In fact marriage and divorce stats are hard to uniformly gauge based on different rules regarding marriage. For example Catholics have lower divorce rates, but that is skewed based on the fact that Catholicism frowns on divorce and many Catholics attempt to annul the marriage – which is a different statistic. Countries based on Islamic laws allow polygamy, but it would be grounds for instant divorce in another country. Its hard to compare it as apples to apples – that's why it is imperative that the study have more substantial grounds
Posted: 14 years ago
i think in india it is very less bcoz people dont have an option. i am sure had there been no social bondages there would be many more divorce cases. and also it is not so easy to take divorce in india, its a very long and tiring job.
on the other hand i also feel that indians are more tolerant, accomodating and adapting or adjusting by nature. and in india marriage is considered a bond for the whole life. it is close to a sin to break a marriage.
Posted: 14 years ago
Originally posted by angelic_devil


i think in india it is very less bcoz people dont have an option. i am sure had there been no social bondages there would be many more divorce cases. and also it is not so easy to take divorce in india, its a very long and tiring job.
on the other hand i also feel that indians are more tolerant, accomodating and adapting or adjusting by nature. and in india marriage is considered a bond for the whole life. it is close to a sin to break a marriage.


Still just a percent against 50 percent
Posted: 14 years ago
Originally posted by return_to_hades




I am not sure how can you challenge the validity of the source (you can check other sources), and percentage is always calculated on total number (does not matter if its a large number or a small number) - for instance 1 out of two would be 50 and 2 out of 5 would be 40 percent.
Posted: 14 years ago
Originally posted by Khatarnak




I am not sure how can you challenge the validity of the source (you can check other sources), and percentage is always calculated on total number (does not matter if its a large number or a small number) - for instance 1 out of two would be 50 and 2 out of 5 would be 40 percent.

Here is another source:

http://www.thelocal.se/article.php?ID=779&date=20041230

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