The AP is reporting something many of us could have guessed, and that is that the so-called “family values” party may say that they revere marriage (between a man and a woman, of course), but only temporarily. Apparently, they’re big fans of divorce, too:
Maine, Alaska, Oklahoma, Kentucky and Nevada, ranked at the top for divorces, while Utah, Wyoming and Arkansas — which had the highest marriage rates — were also higher than average in marital breakups. New Jersey, Connecticut, Massachusetts and New York ranked among the lowest in divorces. [...]
“Surprisingly, the South and West, which we think of as more socially conservative, have higher rates of divorce than does the supposedly liberal East,” said Andrew Cherlin, a professor of sociology and public policy at Johns Hopkins University. “The reason is that young adults in the South and West tend to have less education and marry earlier, both of which lead to a higher risk of divorce.”
Via Alternet, Anna North at Jezebel noted…
…the low divorce rates happen to be in states that have gay marriage and civil unions, so that old myth about destroying traditional marriage is completely, well, destroyed, by cold hard facts.
Facts? Did Anna say facts? Piffle! The GOP don’t care about no stinkin’ facts.
H/t: @Lensman23
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