Educated Less Likely to Divorce than Evangelicals

[ILG]

Originally Posted by cneasttx

Well in effect it is just kind of a dig at evangelical's to me. Implying they are uneducated and ignorant. And that money and education hold marriages together.

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.

[A_PoMo]

Originally Posted by ILG

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.

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.

[ILG]

What were the reasons given for marriages lasting longer amongst educated people vs. evangelicals?

Waiting for marriage until they were older and less money stresses.

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.

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.

[A_PoMo]

Originally Posted by ILG

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.

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.