For years, an urban legend has survived because it has been accepted as fact by many people – the myth that half of all marriages end in divorce.
So if you’re getting married for the first time, the odds are even, right? 50/50? No. Nope. Nada. It’s what would be called “disinformation” by some today. And the myth about a 50 percent divorce rate in the church is an even bigger lie.
One Christian author and social researcher Shaunti Feldhahn says the true divorce rate is much lower and always has been.
She has extensively researched the public perception of the 50% myth about divorce, trying to find its original source. And to her pleasant surprise, she couldn’t find any.
She confessed to KLOVE that she had believed the myth too.
“When I started looking at the Census Bureau tables and CDC tables, and the Bureau of Vital Statistics – that’s when I was like – ‘wait a minute this does not match the narrative at all,'” Feldhahn explained.
She didn’t just spend one afternoon in the local library looking into the subject. Her quest took her the next eight years, according to KLOVE.
“The reason it took eight years is that
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