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Posted by: mleblanc138 ( )
Date: August 13, 2011 11:11PM
How high IS the divorce rate in Utah?

Seeing the thread about the high divorce rate made me think about something a friend told me, about Utah having the highest divorce rate, and then I wondered, what exactly IS the divorce rate in Utah? And what factors are primarily behind it?

My friend is pretty sure it's people rushing into marriage too young, and then finding out it's not all rainbows and unicorns. One of my mission companions said some of it is because the girl thinks RM means great hardcore TBM guy, but she ends up with some guy who just went for RM status and resented it the whole time.

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Posted by: NormaRae ( )
Date: August 13, 2011 11:42PM
As usual, TSCC is just out-and-out lying

This is 2011 data for number of divorces per state. Utah is 25, so right smack dab in the middle. I'd say that makes it as close to the average number of divorces as you can get. If only 6% of them are people who were married in the temple, you wouldn't know many non-temple-married people in Utah who are still married.

http://maritalmediation.com/2011/02/divorce-rates-according-to-the-wall-street-journal-and-cdc/

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