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Originally Posted by Cali Coug

According to President Hinckley, it was almost half in 1990.

"Some of you within the sound of my voice could recount family sorrows in your own experience. But among the greatest of tragedies, and I think the most common, is divorce. It has become as a great scourge. The most recent issue of the World Almanac says that in the United States during the twelve months ending with March 1990, an estimated 2,423,000 couples married. During this same period, an estimated 1,177,000 couples divorced. (See The World Almanac and Book of Facts, 1991, New York: World Almanac, 1990, p. 834.)

This means that in the United States almost one divorce occurred for every two marriages."

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It may be lower today, but the discussion here is about the "overwhelming success" of marriage in US society. Even at 1/3, can you really call it an overwhelming success? What percentage of marriages suffer infidelity? This is a bit of a different discussion than the focus of the thread, however.

Read again what Pres. Hinckley says, Cali. He actually speaks very accurately and clearly, but unfortunately, people hear (and read) it incorrectly. He doesn't say, or even imply, that half of all marriages end in divorce. He says that during the stated period, there was almost one divorce for every two marriages. What he said is a true statement, but the "half of all marriages end in divorce" is not true, and it is not what he said.