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Surprise! "Liberal" Massachusetts Has Lower Divorce Rate Than "NeoCon" Texas (Why Are NeoCons Such Hypocrites?) |
Family Value My *****.
http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2004/10/31/walking_the_walk_on_family_values/
PRESIDENT Bush and Vice President Cheney make reference to
"Massachusetts liberals" as if they were referring to people with some
kind of disease. I decided it was time to do some research on these
people, and here is what I found.
The state with the lowest divorce rate in the nation is Massachusetts.
At latest count it had a divorce rate of 2.4 per 1,000 population,
while the rate for Texas was 4.1.
But don't take the US government's word for it. Take a look at the
findings from the George Barna Research Group. George Barna, a
born-again Christian whose company is in Ventura, Calif., found that
Massachusetts does indeed have the lowest divorce rate among all 50
states. More disturbing was the finding that born-again Christians
have among the highest divorce rates.
The Associated Press, using data supplied by the US Census Bureau,
found that the highest divorce rates are to be found in the Bible
Belt. The AP report stated that "the divorce rates in these
conservative states are roughly 50 percent above the national average
of 4.2 per thousand people."
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02 Nov 2004 09:28:11 PM |
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On Mon, 01 Nov 2004 22:42:41 -0800, "Yang, AthD (h.c), Kicking AWOL's
Cocaine Snorting *****" <eacmole@/*AWOLBUSH*/mail.com> wrote:
Family Value My *****.
http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2004/10/31/walking_the_walk_on_family_values/
PRESIDENT Bush and Vice President Cheney make reference to
"Massachusetts liberals" as if they were referring to people with some
kind of disease. I decided it was time to do some research on these
people, and here is what I found.
The state with the lowest divorce rate in the nation is Massachusetts.
At latest count it had a divorce rate of 2.4 per 1,000 population,
while the rate for Texas was 4.1.
But don't take the US government's word for it. Take a look at the
findings from the George Barna Research Group. George Barna, a
born-again Christian whose company is in Ventura, Calif., found that
Massachusetts does indeed have the lowest divorce rate among all 50
states. More disturbing was the finding that born-again Christians
have among the highest divorce rates.
The Associated Press, using data supplied by the US Census Bureau,
found that the highest divorce rates are to be found in the Bible
Belt. The AP report stated that "the divorce rates in these
conservative states are roughly 50 percent above the national average
of 4.2 per thousand people."
-----
Yang
a.a. #28
AthD (h.c.) conferred by the regents of the LCL
a.a. pastor #-273.15, the most frigid church of Celcius nee Kelvin
EAC Econometric Forecast and Sorcery Division
Proudly plonked by Lani Girl and Crazyalec
The Bush 'balanced' budget: 1.2 trillion and worsening
The Bush 'economic' policy: -1.6 million jobs and counting
The Bush Iraq lie: -1122 GIs, one friend's co-worker's son and mounting
Having Bush ***** up my country: Worthless
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| Title: Re: Surprise! "Liberal" Massachusetts Has Lower Divorce Rate Than "NeoCon" Texas (Why Are NeoCons Such Hypocrites?) |
02 Nov 2004 05:15:25 PM |
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On Mon, 01 Nov 2004 22:42:41 -0800, "Yang, AthD (h.c), Kicking AWOL's
Cocaine Snorting *****" <eacmole@/*AWOLBUSH*/mail.com> wrote:
Family Value My *****.
http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2004/10/31/walking_the_walk_on_family_values/
WILLIAM V. D'ANTONIO
Walking the walk on family values
By William V. D'Antonio | October 31, 2004
PRESIDENT Bush and Vice President Cheney make reference to
"Massachusetts liberals" as if they were referring to people with some
kind of disease. I decided it was time to do some research on these
people, and here is what I found.
The state with the lowest divorce rate in the nation is Massachusetts.
At latest count it had a divorce rate of 2.4 per 1,000 population,
while the rate for Texas was 4.1.
But don't take the US government's word for it. Take a look at the
findings from the George Barna Research Group. George Barna, a
born-again Christian whose company is in Ventura, Calif., found that
Massachusetts does indeed have the lowest divorce rate among all 50
states. More disturbing was the finding that born-again Christians
have among the highest divorce rates.
The Associated Press, using data supplied by the US Census Bureau,
found that the highest divorce rates are to be found in the Bible
Belt. The AP report stated that "the divorce rates in these
conservative states are roughly 50 percent above the national average
of 4.2 per thousand people." The 10 Southern states with some of the
highest divorce rates were Alabama, Arkansas, Arizona, Florida,
Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, and
Texas. By comparison nine states in the Northeast were among those
with the lowest divorce rates: Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maine, New
Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and
Vermont.
How to explain these differences? The following factors provide a
partial answer:
* More couples in the South enter their first marriage at a younger
age.
* Average household incomes are lower in the South.
* Southern states have a lower percentage of Roman Catholics, "a
denomination that does not recognize divorce." Barna's study showed
that 21 percent of Catholics had been divorced, compared with 29
percent of Baptists.
* Education. Massachusetts has about the highest rate of education in
the country, with 85 percent completing high school. For Texas the
rate is 76 percent. One third of Massachusetts residents have
completed college, compared with 23 percent of Texans, and the other
Northeast states are right behind Massachusetts.
The liberals from Massachusetts have long prided themselves on their
emphasis on education, and it has paid off: People who stay in school
longer get married at a later age, when they are more mature, are more
likely to secure a better job, and job income increases with each
level of formal education. As a result, Massachusetts also leads in
per capita and family income while births by teenagers, as a percent
of total births, was 7.4 for Massachusetts and 16.1 for Texas.
The Northeast corridor, with Massachusetts as the hub, does have one
of the highest levels of Catholics per state total. And it is also the
case that these are among the states most strongly supportive of the
Catholic Church's teaching on social justice issues such as minimum
and living wages and universal healthcare.
For all the Bible Belt talk about family values, it is the people from
Kerry's home state, along with their neighbors in the Northeast
corridor, who live these values. Indeed, it is the "blue" states, led
led by Massachusetts and Connecticut, that have been willing to invest
more money over time to foster the reality of what it means to leave
no children behind. And they have been among the nation's leaders in
promoting a living wage as their goal in public employment. The money
they have invested in their future is known more popularly as taxes;
these so-called liberal people see that money is their investment to
help insure a compassionate, humane society. Family values are much
more likely to be found in the states mistakenly called
out-of-the-mainstream liberal. By their behavior you can know them as
the true conservatives. They are showing how to conserve family life
through the way they live their family values.
William V. D'Antonio is professor emeritus at University of
Connecticut and a visiting research professor at Catholic University
in Washington, D.C.
© Copyright 2004 Globe Newspaper Company.
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