Marriage and Divorce
(Data are for the U.S.)
Number of marriages: 2,230,000
Marriage rate: 7.5 per 1,000 total population
Divorce rate: 3.6 per 1,000 population (46 reporting States and D.C.)
Source: Births, Marriages, Divorces, and Deaths: Provisional Data for 2005, Table A
More Data
Cohabitation, Marriage, Divorce, and Remarriage in the United States
Detailed marriage and divorce Tables by state
Divorce rates by state, 1990-2004
Marriage rates by state, 1990-2004
Related Links
Change in the reporting of marriage and divorce statistics
National Survey of Family Growth
Where to Write for Vital Records
U.S. Census Bureau
(for more visit: http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/divorce.htm )
Saturday, July 25, 2009
Compassion
The next virtue in The Book of Virtues and in our series is Compassion. Webster’s defines compassion as a: sympathetic consciousness of others' distress together with a desire to alleviate it. I think that underscores an important point – compassion isn’t just about being “sympathetically” aware of the distress of others . . . it is also about a desire to ease that distress; it’s not just enough to feel bad for the beggar on the street . . . you have to throw some money into his hat as well. So how does this apply to the average divorced “dude”? Well to start off with I’d like to point out that when you are in the process of going through a divorce it can be very much like a battle; you are completely focused on strategies, tactics, ground lost, objectives won and gaining the high ground in one sense or another. To a large degree that kind of focus is necessary and needful since you are fighting for your financial survival as well as your future. But this focus can become myopic to the exclusion of your ability to see or be aware of the collateral damage being inflicted on others. It can really come as a shock to some men to realize how deeply their children, family and friends have been hurt by the war being waged between them and their ex-spouse. (For the rest of this post click here: http://dudesndivorce.com/2009/07/23/the-divorced-man-and-compassion/ )
The next virtue in The Book of Virtues and in our series is Compassion. Webster’s defines compassion as a: sympathetic consciousness of others' distress together with a desire to alleviate it. I think that underscores an important point – compassion isn’t just about being “sympathetically” aware of the distress of others . . . it is also about a desire to ease that distress; it’s not just enough to feel bad for the beggar on the street . . . you have to throw some money into his hat as well. So how does this apply to the average divorced “dude”? Well to start off with I’d like to point out that when you are in the process of going through a divorce it can be very much like a battle; you are completely focused on strategies, tactics, ground lost, objectives won and gaining the high ground in one sense or another. To a large degree that kind of focus is necessary and needful since you are fighting for your financial survival as well as your future. But this focus can become myopic to the exclusion of your ability to see or be aware of the collateral damage being inflicted on others. It can really come as a shock to some men to realize how deeply their children, family and friends have been hurt by the war being waged between them and their ex-spouse. (For the rest of this post click here: http://dudesndivorce.com/2009/07/23/the-divorced-man-and-compassion/ )
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