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We've written about divorce
trends in China and India, and now there are some interesting numbers
coming out of Australia.
The Australian Bureau of Statistics
says that marriage is on the decline and divorce is on the rise. I'm
no mathematician, but eventually I figure that has to lead to a decline
in the number of divorces. But for now, the situation is that
the marriage rate in Australia has declined by 25 percent.
Delving into the numbers further
shows that the average age of people getting married for the first time
has risen over the past two decades. For men, the average first-time
marriage age has gone up nearly five years to 30. For women, it's
gone from 23.5 to 28. It would seem likely for the divorce rate to decline,
if not because there are fewer marriages then because people are older
(and presumably wiser) when they get married. But there was a slight
increase in Australia's divorce rate between 1986 and 2001.
I'm no statistician, but that doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me.
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It makes sense
Think of it like this:
In the past 50% of the people getting married got divorced (say 500K out of 1 million). But now there are less people getting married (say 800K), but the same amount get divorced, hence throwing the ratio into 70%, or perhaps divorce went up slightly making the ratio look like 80%.
All it means is less people are getting married and a greater percentage of those people are getting divorced, which I think is interesting when you look at the Christian Right. They want to save the sanctity of marriage by not letting gays marry while they are divorcing and screwing around, while some gay couples have been together for 25 years and can't visit each other in the hospital or get visitation rights.
Now does that sounds like truth and justice for ALL? Or just those that fit the mold?
Toni